The Word Is Murder
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
Cette série suit les enquêtes palpitantes du détective privé Daniel Hawthorne, dont les affaires deviennent souvent l'inspiration pour des romans. L'auteur, qui lui sert d'acolyte et de chroniqueur, saisit chaque mystère avec un œil vif pour les détails. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des intrigues policières classiques agrémentées d'une perspective unique sur le processus créatif et les complexités de la nature humaine. C'est un regard fascinant sur les mondes du crime et de la littérature.



When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant new murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
Private investigator Daniel Hawthorne and the writer Anthony Horowitz have been invited to a literary festival on the island of Alderney to talk about their new book. Very soon they discover that dark forces are at work. Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour. And the visiting authors seems to be harbouring any number of unpleasant secrets. When the festival's wealthy sponsor is found brutally murdered, Alderney goes into lockdown and Hawthorne knows he doesn't have to look too far for suspects. There's no escape. The killer is still on the island. And there's about to be a second death..