The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz #1) by Anthony Horowitz

A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11 a.m. on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlour to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home.
   Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz--a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories--suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery.
   But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realises that he's at the centre of a story he can't control, and his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own.

Genres: Mystery - Crime - Mystery Thriller - Thriller - Detective - Murder Mystery - British Literature
Condition: Good
Published: First published in 2017. This edition published in 2019 by Harper Perennial
Pages: 390
ISBN: 9780062676801
Weight: 310g