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Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders; and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line To Kill, The Twist of a Knife and Close to Death.

He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.

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From the globally bestselling author of Marble Hall Murders and A Deadly Episode comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne series set during a murder trial.

Anthony has been called for jury service.

On trial is the troubled son of a retired High Court judge. Lawrence Gascoyne stands accused of killing his mother's closest friend, hammering him to death with a sculptor's mallet.

All the evidence is against Lawrence who is himself a sculptor and was seen carrying the murder weapon out of his house. He had even threatened the victim on the day of the murder.

Anthony, along with almost everyone else in the courtroom, believes that Lawrence is guilty.

But from the very start, somebody else has been secretly watching the trial.

And when a juror is murdered, former detective Daniel Hawthorne intervenes.

Although Hawthorne has his own secrets to hide ...

Praise for Anthony Horowitz:

'An absolutely wonderful writer' Richard Osman

'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times

'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM

'Horowitz is undeniably brilliant' Metro London

'[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer' The Times

'The master of the mystery' Style

'The King of the clever whodunit' Good Housekeeping

'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jónasson