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If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...

In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.

Houston is the world's most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.

And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...



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A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship * Spectator *
This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour * Sunday Mirror *
'A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship' Andrew Taylor, Spectator Books of the Year. * Spectator *
'This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour' Sunday Mirror. * Sunday Mirror *

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A Paperback / softback by Philip Kerr

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    Publisher: Quercus Publishing
    Publication Date: 04/12/2014
    ISBN13: 9781782065807, 978-1782065807
    ISBN10: 1782065806

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...

    In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.

    Houston is the world's most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.

    And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...



    Trade Review
    A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship * Spectator *
    This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour * Sunday Mirror *
    'A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship' Andrew Taylor, Spectator Books of the Year. * Spectator *
    'This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour' Sunday Mirror. * Sunday Mirror *

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