The Word is Murder The Word is Murder
Audiobook 1 - A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery

The Word is Murder

    • 4.3 • 156 Ratings
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    • $19.99

Publisher Description

Narrated by Rory Kinnear

"One of the most entertaining mysteries of the year. It’s also one of the most stimulating, as it ponders such questions as: Which is of greater interest to the reader, the crime or the detective? And: Is the pencil truly mightier than the butcher knife?” — Wall Street Journal

New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.

A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11 a.m. on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz—a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories—suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery.

But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes that he’s at the center of a story he can’t control, and his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
NARRATOR
RK
Rory Kinnear
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:02
hr min
RELEASED
2018
June 5
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
363.4
MB

Customer Reviews

renelec ,

The Word is Murder

Amazing!
So much fun reading it! I can’t wait to read the next one!

BigLfe ,

Fantastic Murder Mystery

I love a great who-done-it. Terrific writing, character development, storyline, mystery and humor kept me listening with rapt attention. I can't imagine a better narrator Rory Kinnear. Just one note: this is not like an Agatha Christie novel where body damage is sort of vague and incidental. There are a couple spots where it's pretty gruesome. If at all squeamish, you may want to pass on this. That aside, I highly recommend!

nbgfft ,

Okay

I have no idea why there were some rave reviews, it was okay...

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