A Deadly Episode: A gripping murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author

From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. ‘Easily the greatest of our crime writers’ Sunday Times'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz’ Crime Time FM'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jónasson---------The good news is that The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being turned into a major feature film. The bad news is that the director is pretentious, the screenwriter thinks she’s Salman Rushdie, the stars hate each other and the producer has run out of money. And things are about to get much worse. In the third week of the shoot (in Hastings), the actor playing Hawthorne is murdered.It happens the day after the real Hawthorne and his hopeless assistant have visited the set. And now Hawthorne has no choice. He has to investigate his own murder. Is it possible that Hawthorne made the biggest mistake of his career and arrest