A Deadly EpisodeFrom the globally bestselling author of 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 Jnasson The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film. The actors have been cast, the script

But when a letter from Arthur is delivered

With a nature as wild as the moors she loves to roam

He needs Vargas to help him get back on an even keel so he can focus his mind on finding the killer before they're both silenced for good

The senator is Cicero

THE LONG-AWAITED

Petersburg he knows all too well

Addictive Ķ will set off a million debates Annie Lord

'Compelling and intriguing' J

is his worthy successor

'For me it all goes back to that night

And now the Woodcutter is back

her sister's butler