‘Witty, wry, clever, a fabulous detective story and perfect summer reading’ KATE MOSSE’Funny, intriguing, thrilling and thought-provoking: a marvellous mystery’ ADAM HAMDY’Horowitz … playing Watson to Hawthorne’s Sherlock, serves up a pretty kettle of fish, full of red herrings’ THE TIMES’With a colourful cast of characters, clever red herrings, a locked-room puzzle and chalk-and-cheese banter between the sleuths, Horowitz keeps the reader entertained and guessing throughout, in a wonderful take on the classic crime thriller’ INDEPENDENT________________________________________’I couldn’t see the sea from my bedroom but I could hear the waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a tiny island. And I was trapped.’
