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From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.
'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times
'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM
'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jonasson
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The good news is that The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being turned into a major feature film.
The bad news is that the director is pretentious, the screenwriter thinks she's Salman Rushdie, the stars hate each other and the producer has run out of money.
And things are about to get much worse.
In the third week of the shoot (in Hastings), the actor playing Hawthorne is murdered. It happens the day after the real Hawthorne and his hopeless assistant have visited the set. And now Hawthorne has no choice.
He has to investigate his own murder.
Is it possible that Hawthorne made the biggest mistake of his career and arrested the wrong man? And is it now time for him to pay the price?
The sixth book in the Hawthorne series is a wild ride through a world that the author knows only too well. It's going to be the most surprising and shocking case Hawthorne has had to deal with so far.
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Readers love the Hawthorne & Horowitz series . . .
***** 'It's Agatha Christie on steroids!'
***** 'Wow, this has got to be my favourite detective series ever!'
***** 'I had so much fun reading this book'
***** 'Outstanding . . . I loved it'
***** 'Honestly, the best crime read in a long time'
- Publisher Name:Cornerstone
- ISBN: 9781804942987
- Author:Horowitz, Anthony
- Publication Date:2026-09-24
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