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SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER MURDER? Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBC's Sherlock, you'll LOVE The Word is Murder! "A very clever and inventive mystery" (Bookbag) "A perfect detective novel in a unique style complete with an excellent twist!" (Life Has a Funny Way of Sneaking Up On You) `With its unorthodox protagonist, clever plotting, brilliantly imperfect characters, and escalating sense of urgency and intrigue, THE WORD IS MURDER is an instant crime classic that will keep you reading as fast as you can... one of the best and most compulsively readable mysteries of the year. Hugely satisfying on every level." (Written by Sime) 'Will undoubtedly exhilarate not only crime and Horowitz fans but anyone who enjoys the sense of metafiction and fourth wall breaking found in books by authors like Lemony Snicket, Bret Easton Ellis and Martin Amis.' (Fiendfully Reading) A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can't control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning new thriller.

James Bond returns in this thrilling new adventure from Anthony Horowitz - with original Ian Fleming material.James Bond is back where he belongs.Anthony Horowitz's new novel is a thrilling tour de force, sure to delight fans of the original 007 novels and new readers alike. It also features previously unseen material written by Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.The story begins in the lethal world of Grand Prix and an attempt by the Russians to sabotage a race at N rburgring, the most dangerous track in Europe. Bond is in the driving seat but events swiftly take an unexpected turn, pitching him into an entirely different race with implications that could change the world.Anthony Horowitz recreates the golden age of Bond, packed with speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, in this brilliantly authentic adventure.

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn''t as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London - even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot.So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can''t help but find herself fascinated.And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened.The clues to the murder and to Cecily''s disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel.But to save Cecily, Susan must place her own life in mortal danger...

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead - this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, and will reveal Smithers' ultimate gadget and see the shock death of a major character.

When life is over, and the conflicted souls of the dead wend their weary way down to the underworld, what do they see? A three-headed dog with slavering jaws, a dark and foreboding river with a skeletal ferryman or simply darkness? Only the very brave or very foolish will venture down into the realm of the afterlife, and they will seldom live to tell the tale . .

When Guy Fletcher scoffs at a feeble joke he overhears in his local pub, he finds himself, in quick succession, head-butted and struck by an idea. Is it possible to trace a joke all the way back to its original source? Guy's meandering trail leads him to a Hungarian dentist, a hyperactive troop of Boy Scouts, a group of giggling grave-diggers, and a half-dozen undercover detectives. He's also sure that he's being followed by a sinister Englishman, Irishman, and Scotsman. He has an unfortunate encounter with a banana peel. And there's a fly in his soup. Guy is on the verge of discovering something very unpleasant. Making jokes is no laughing matter.

La nueva novela oficial de Sherlock Holmes, encargada por los herederos de sir Conan Doyle.En noviembre de 1890, el invierno de Londres no da tregua. Sherlock Holmes y el doctor Watson están tomando el te junto a la chimenea cuando un caballero evidentemente nervioso irrumpe en el 221B de Baker Street. Tras contarle a Holmes una desconcertante historia acerca de un individuo que le ha estado siguiendo las ultimas semanas, le suplica que le ayude.Intrigados por lo que les narra ese hombre, Holmes y Watson se sumergen en una serie de extraños y siniestros eventos, que abarcan desde las calles mal iluminadas de Londres hasta los bulliciosos bajos fondos de Boston. Mientras investigan el caso, se topan con una contraseña susurrada: ?La casa de la seda? no es solo un misterio, tambien el enemigo mas peligroso al que Holmes se haya enfrentado jamas; y una conspiracion que amenaza con desgarrar el tejido de la sociedad en la que viven...Con una trama diabolica y una excelente caracterizacion, el famoso escritor Anthony Horowitz ha creado un misterio de Sherlock Holmes de primera categoria, manteniendose totalmente fiel al espiritu de los libros originales de Conan Doyle. Holmes ha vuelto con todo el ritmo, la sutileza y los poderes de deduccion que le convirtieron en el mejor detective del mundo.Reseñas:La Casa de la Seda se lee de un tiron, respeta el estilo del difunto Conan Doyle, introduce elementos perversos imposibles de abordar en la era victoriana y deja al lector con ganas de mas.El Periodico de CatalunyaAnthony Horowitz ha creado un misterio de primera categoria, manteniendose totalmente fiel al espiritu de los libros originales.La Casa de la Seda nos devuelve un Holmes con todo el estilo, la sutileza y el poder de deduccion que lo convirtieron en el mejor detective del mundo, pero tambien con un ritmo y una sensibilidad mas modernos.MiaEs una novela entretenida, con un ritmo trepidante, giros inesperados y una trama sugerente, de conspiraciones en la sombra y poderes ocultos.La Opinion de MalagaUna solida novela [...], bien armada desde el principio [...]. Escrito con solvencia, los personajes mantienen las caracteristicas esenciales con las que los vistio Conan Doyle. La trama y los escenarios hacen justicia a la inspiracion de los originales [...]. El resultado es una novela entretenida, con un ritmo trepidante, giros inesperados y una trama sugerente, de conspiraciones en la sombra y poderes ocultos.La Opinion de TenerifeAnthony Horowitz es la eleccion perfecta para escribir el primer misterio oficial nuevo, y menudo triunfo. Al tiempo que se mantiene fiel al estilo de los originales de Conan Doyle, la vivida prosa de Howowitz hace que esta apasionante historia resulte perfecta para una nueva generacion de fans.Sarah Clarke,Torbay BookshopOrion se ha sacado un ganador de la manga invitando a Anthony Horowitz a escribir una novela de Sherlock Holmes. Tiene el estilo de una novela de Conan Doyle y solo los envidiosos encontraran defectos a este soberbiothriller.Patrick Neale,Jaffe and Neale

Meet Alex Rider, the reluctant teenage spy. When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercies. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission...

Readers will cheer for Alex Rider, the 14-year-old hero of British author Horowitz's spy thriller (the first in a projected series). When his guardian and uncle, Ian, is mysteriously killed, Alex discovers that his uncle was not the bank vice-president he purported to be, but rather a spy for the British government. Now the government wants Alex to take over his uncle's mission: investigating Sayle Enterprises, the makers of a revolutionary computer called Stormbreaker. The company's head plans to donate one to every secondary school in England, but his dealings with unfriendly countries and Ian Rider's murder have brought him under suspicion. Posing as a teenage computer whiz who's won a Stormbreaker promotional contest, Alex enters the factory and immediately finds clues from his uncle. Satirical names abound (e.g., Mr. Grin, Mr. Sayle's brutish butler, is so named for the scars he received from a circus knife-throwing act gone wrong) and the hard-boiled language is equally outrageous (It was a soft gray night with a half-moon forming a perfect D in the sky. D for what, Alex wondered. Danger? Discovery? Or disaster?). These exaggerations only add to the fun, as do the creative gadgets that Alex uses, including a metal-munching cream described as Zit-Clean. For Healthier Skin. The ultimate mystery may be a bit of a letdown, but that won't stop readers from racing through Alex's adventures, from a high-speed bike chase to a death-defying dance with a Portuguese man-of-war. The audience will stay tuned for his next assignment, Point Blanc, due out spring 2002. Ages 10-up.