Day Four

She wrote for a living. But who wanted her dead?When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it's no accident - even if the case needs a good edit.The village is strangely uneventful.The suspects are suspiciously normal.The leads quickly turn into dead ends...But when Annie's final manuscript lands on the doormat, the pages humming with mystery and suspense, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.This can't be a coincidence.Because if Niamh learnt anything from her mother's crime fiction, it's that there's no such thing. And that village secrets never stay buried for long...From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter, How to Kill a Crime Writeris a funny, mind-bending and brilliantly original mystery that will stay with you long after the final page. Perfect for fans of Jennie Godfrey and Anthony Horowitz'Playfully blurring the lines of reality and underscored with tenderness' Sarah LotzReaders love HOW TO KILL A CRIME WRITER'[A] heartfelt, compelling, and delightfully meta mystery ... a laugh-out-loud yet deeply touching story' ¿¿¿¿¿'I loved this book through and through ... The story beautifully explores themes of grief and loss in a way that feels honest, raw, and deeply moving' ¿¿¿¿¿'Mind blowing, a masterclass in suspense ... I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since' ¿¿¿¿¿'The tension is thick, the atmosphere ominous, and the twists are genuinely shocking ... the ending had my jaw on the floor!' ¿¿¿¿¿'Fabulous... sharp, wittyand really fun to read! I loved it' ¿¿¿¿¿

From acclaimed thriller writer Sarah Lotz, hailed by Stephen King as "vastly entertaining," a new novel about a group of amateur detectives infiltrated by the sadistic killer whose crimes they're investigating.<BR>Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn't been heard from since. None of Shaun's relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle's death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone.<BR><BR> But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His search is unsuccessful until he's contacted by Chris Guzman, a woman who runs a website dedicated to matching missing-persons cases with unidentified bodies. Chris and her team of cold-case obsessives suspect that Shaun is looking for the "Boy in the Dress," one victim in a series of gay men murdered by the same killer.<BR><BR> But who are these internet fanatics really, and how do they know so much about a case that has stumped police for decades? Soon armchair sleuths and professional investigators are on a collision course with a sadistic serial killer who's gotten away with his crimes for far too long - and now they're in his sights.<BR><BR><BR>