Twyford Code Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year
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Biografisk notat
Janice Hallett studied English at UCL, and spent several years as a magazine editor, winning two awards for journalism. Her debut novel, The Appeal, was a Sunday Times bestseller, the Sunday Times 2021 crime book of the year, and shortlisted for the Waterstones book of the year. Janice lives in West London.Even better [than The Appeal]... This fiendishly clever book manages to be both tricksy and surprisingly moving
Guardian
Hallett swoops in with a bravura final section that sheds new light on everything you've read before and will leave you amazed at her ingenuity. It's all right there in the code
New York Times
Hallett has aced it... Every page is a joy, with laugh-out-loud moments... The startling final reveal crowns Hallett as the queen of unreliable narrators
Sunday Times
A tour de force - a genuinely complex puzzle with real clues to be solved... A mind-bending, heartwarming mystery that is not to be missed
Observer
A big-hearted, ingeniously constructed mystery... A book that will engage your emotions as much as your wits
Sunday Express
A "cancelled" book is at the heart of Hallett's much-acclaimed, complex novel. Elegant, puzzling metafictional writing that pleasurably tasks readers with extricating the truth
Financial Times
A thoroughly unusual thriller
Daily Mail
I came for the acrostics and stayed for the rich characterisation and sly humour
Telegraph
A brilliantly clever, deceptive mystery with a unique twist
Heat
If you love a puzzle, you'll enjoy this novel packed full of mystery and intrigue. Perfect for Richard Osman and SJ Bennett fans
Yours
The author of the word-of-mouth hit The Appeal delivers another original, ingenious whodunnit
Good Housekeeping
Hallett is a deft storyteller, and her latest combines humor and pathos... will keep readers in suspense until the final page
Washington Post
Such a clever whodunnit, and she's an absolute master of what she does
- Richard Coles, author of MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG,
Enid Blyton meets Agatha Christie with a cracking twist. Witty and wonderful
- Marion Todd,
A wonderful book, clever and surprisingly compassionate, constantly wrong-footing the reader on its way to an ingenious and wholly satisfying final reveal
- Brian McGilloway,