A Deadly Episode

From the globally bestselling author of Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.<BR><BR>'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times<BR>'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM<BR>'Five-star entertainment' The Times<BR><BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film.<BR><BR>The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings.<BR><BR>But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit the set, they find a far from happy family.<BR><BR>The director's pretentious, the screenwriter's an eco-warrior, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money.<BR><BR>And things are about to get much, much worse.<BR><BR>In the middle of shooting, the actor playing Hawthorne is stabbed - which leaves the real Hawthorne with no choice. He has to step in and investigate his own murder.<BR><BR>Because the killer may not have got the right man. Was it Hawthorne himself who was meant to be the target?<BR><BR>A Deadly Episode is a wild ride through a world that the author knows only too well, and the most personal case Hawthorne has had to deal with so far.<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>Praise for A Deadly Episode . . .<BR><BR>'Clever and playful, this is meta-mystery at its best.' iPaper<BR><BR>'Another winner' Financial Times<BR><BR>'Perfect for Agatha Christie fans' Hello!<BR><BR>'The perfect whodunnit' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'A brilliant writer' Sunday Independent<BR><BR>'A very entertaining instalment to this fabulous series' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'A pacy and entertaining mystery that I loved from start to finish' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'A roller coaster of red herrings' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'Full of humour, twists and red herrings' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'Exceedingly brilliant' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>'Delightful' Wall Street Journal