How to Kill a Crime Writer
Will be published approx. on 26. February 2026
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-00-846405-9 (ISBN)
Description
She wrote for a living.
But who wanted her dead?
When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it's no accident - even if the case needs a good edit.
The village is strangely uneventful.
The suspects are suspiciously normal.
The leads quickly turn into dead ends...
But when Annie's final manuscript lands on the doormat, the pages humming with mystery and suspense, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
This can't be a coincidence.
Because if Niamh learnt anything from her mother's crime fiction, it's that there's no such thing. And that village secrets never stay buried for long...
From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter, How to Kill a Crime Writer is a funny, mind-bending mystery that will stay with you long after the final page.
But who wanted her dead?
When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it's no accident - even if the case needs a good edit.
The village is strangely uneventful.
The suspects are suspiciously normal.
The leads quickly turn into dead ends...
But when Annie's final manuscript lands on the doormat, the pages humming with mystery and suspense, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
This can't be a coincidence.
Because if Niamh learnt anything from her mother's crime fiction, it's that there's no such thing. And that village secrets never stay buried for long...
From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter, How to Kill a Crime Writer is a funny, mind-bending mystery that will stay with you long after the final page.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Sarah Lotz:'Hard to put down and vastly entertaining' STEPHEN KING
'A ferociously imaginative storyteller whose twisty plots will kick the stairs out from under you' LAUREN BEUKES
'Holy s***. This book. I loved everything about it' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'This high-concept thriller is a blast' GUARDIAN
'An absolutely addictive read ... Genuinely unputdownable' JENNIFER SAINT
'What an absolute joy of a book!' SARAH PINBOROUGH
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-846405-9 (9780008464059)
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Person
Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and award-winning novelist whose previous work has been translated into over twenty languages. Her last high concept novel, Impossible, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction & the Comedy Women in Print Prize. She lives on the Welsh borders in a suspiciously uneventful hamlet with her family and far too many rescue dogs.