'Witty wry clever a fabulous detective story and perfect summer reading' KATE MOSSE 'Funny
intriguing thrilling and thought-provoking: a marvellous mystery' ADAM HAMDY 'Horowitz ...
playing Watson to Hawthorne's Sherlock serves up a pretty kettle of fish full of red
herrings' THE TIMES 'With a colourful cast of characters clever red herrings a locked-room
puzzle and chalk-and-cheese banter between the sleuths Horowitz keeps the reader entertained
and guessing throughout in a wonderful take on the classic crime thriller' INDEPENDENT
________________________________________'I couldn't see the sea from my bedroom but I could
hear the waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a tiny island. And I
was trapped.' There has never been a murder on Alderney. It's a tiny island just three miles
long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand-new literary festival.
Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer
Anthony Horowitz travels with him. Very soon they discover that all is not as it should be.
Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it desecrating a war
cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour. The visiting authors - including a blind
medium a French performance poet and a celebrity chef - seem to be harbouring any number of
unpleasant secrets. When the festival's wealthy sponsor is found brutally killed Alderney goes
into lockdown and Hawthorne knows that 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...
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comic moments as they encounter their fellow participants including a loud-mouthed TV chef and
a volatile French performance poet. A party thrown by one of the festival's sponsors ends in
murder but the best thing about this diverting novel is Horowitz's stream of self-deprecating
observations about being a writer.' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A golden-age whodunnit on steroids'
KIRKUS REVIEWS 'There's no way out in this compelling whodunnit' WOMAN'S OWN 'One of my
all-time favourite authors' RYAN TUBRIDY 'An irresistible whodunnit' SAGA 'Providing
contemporary crime fiction with a much-needed revitalisation' CRIME FICTION LOVER 'A classic
closed-room mystery with great characters and plenty of red herrings' CHOICE 'A clever
light-hearted tale infused with the author's customary wit and panache. Horowitz's legion of
fans will love unpicking the red herrings and connecting the clues here' NEWBOOKS MAGAZINE
'Horowitz's witty and crafty narrative is as evocative of the detachment and claustrophobia of
rural isolation as last year's Moonflower Murders . . . Unputdownable stuff' THE CONVERSATION
'A cosy mystery echoing Agatha Christie' IRISH INDEPENDENT
