Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday April
6, 2021. We will be discussing The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz.
This is the first book featuring Horowitz himself and detective Daniel
Hawthorne. Anthony Horowitz has written the Alex Rider series for young adults,
and also created, and wrote the television series, Foyle’s War.
The book description from the publisher’s website is, “Anthony
Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this
time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day
Holmes. One bright spring 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, strangled with a curtain
cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a
brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to
crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer 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, temperamental
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. At the
same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of
his own.”
The meeting will be held at 6:30 pm using the Zoom App. For
more information ask Sara at the Reference Desk.
