About this Event
Join us for an evening with Susie Dent to celebrate the release of her novel Guilty by Definition. This evening will consist of an author talk, audience q&a, followed by a book signing.
The queen of Dictionary Corner delivers her engaging debut crime novel - perfect for fans of Richard Osman and the Reverend Richard Coles - as a series of mysterious letters lead a group of lexicographers on the search for a missing woman.
When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it puzzles the team of lexicographers working there. It soon becomes clear that this is not the usual eccentric enquiry. The letter hints at secrets, lies, and a particular year. For Martha Thornhill, the new Senior Editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant, beautiful older sister Charlie went missing.
After a decade spent living abroad, Martha has returned to her father, her home, and the city whose institutions have defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return.
When more letters arrive and the team pull apart the clues within them, the questions become more insistent and troubling. Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, but as the mystery of her disappearance starts to unravel, someone is trying to lead the lexicographers to the truth, while another is desperate to keep it buried.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 1 Warwick Street, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 20.00
