The Word Is Murder
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The Word Is Murder

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The Word Is MurderSHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern day Holmes. One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper the wealthy mother of a famous actor enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?

New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.

Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.

Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.

--Metro London

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 06/05/2018
ISBN: 9780062676788
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2018 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2018 pg. 39
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2018
Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 48
Booklist 04/01/2018 pg. 57
Shelf Awareness 07/06/2018

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 502320 / Word Is Murder
Reading Level: 5.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15
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