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Barb takes care of the web orders here at Boffins, and is your contact for book club enquiries. She spends all her spare time curled up on the couch reading and for the last several years has reviewed books on the Afternoon Program on ABC radio Perth.
A wealthy English woman walks into a funeral parlour one day and arranges her own funeral. Six hours later she is strangled to death in her home. Ex policeman Daniel Hawthorne is acting as a consultant on the case and approaches the author Anthony Horowitz to write a book about his work. Horowitz doesn’t much like Hawthorne, but can’t resist the puzzle of Mrs Cowper’s murder and the chance to observe a real life criminal investigation. He’s been writing fictional crime for years but never come close to the real thing, so he agrees. The Word is Murder is a fun read, like a mixture of Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, but with the added twist of the main character being a real person who narrates the book. Where the line between fact and fiction lies is part of the puzzle. I liked all the stuff about the business of writing - dealing with agents, watching your stories being adapted for TV or the big screen, the pressure of deadlines etc. There’s a hilarious scene in which Hawthorne interrupts and ruins a meeting Horowitz is having with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson about his script for the forthcoming Tintin movie.
