02121cam a2200385 i 4500 1056163472 TxAuBib 20190417120000.0 180605s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062676788 trade 0062676784 trade KHPB566 eng rda ICrlF ICrlF TxAuBib rda Horowitz, Anthony, author. The word is murder : a novel / Anthony Horowitz. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] 390 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Library Journal, April 2018. Booklist starred, April 2018. Kirkus Starred, March 2018. Library Journal. Booklist starred. Kirkus Starred. "One bright sping 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 in her own home, strangled with a curtain cord. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who is as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghostwriter to document his life, a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself at the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, tempermental, 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. But it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own."--Dust jacket. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20190417. Murder Investigation Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Homicide Fiction. Criminal investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.