Murder Among Friends Mystery Discussion Group: "The Word is Murder" by Anthony Horowitz

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lisle Library District
Meeting Room B

Event Details

 Word is Murder Cover with Lori Rader-Day Murder Among Friends will round out the year's mysteries with one of the most intriguing of 2019: Anthony Horowitz's novel take on Sherlock Holmes: The Word is Murder. In it, he himself becomes a Watson to his Sherlock, a policeman named Daniel Hawthorne. And as a very special holiday treat Lori Rader-Day is coming to share her thoughts on this book -- from another mystery writer's perspective! 

Here's what Goodreads has to say about it:
SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?

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.

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.

Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.

Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.

And as a special treat -- author Lori Rader-Day will help us go even more "meta" by sharing a mystery writer's perspective on reading another author's book.

Have we saved the best for last? Come join us and see!

All are welcome to attend, no registration is required. Questions? Contact Patricia Ruocco at ruoccop@lislelibrary.org

For more information, please see the Murder Among Friends [MAF] blog.

Event Type(s): Book Discussion Group
Patricia Ruocco
(630) 971-1675 ext. 1503