How to Kill a Crime Writer

By Sarah Lotz

She wrote the book on murder. Has she penned her own ending?

Following the death of her mother – the bestselling crime writer Annie Morrissey – Niamh moves into her mother’s village, ostensibly to take care of the grief admin but in reality to shut herself away from the world.

Until two plot twists occur:

The advanced copy of her mother’s latest book lands on the doorstep.

The new mystery has eerie echoes of her death…

Reading between the lines, Niamh begins to suspect the death of the novelist was no accident. She’s suddenly confronted with the kind of puzzle she’d only read about in her mother’s mysteries – but might they hold the answers too?

From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter comes a delightful puzzle box mystery that’ll leave you guessing until the very last page…

Author: Sarah Lotz
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 26 Feb 2026
Pages: 400
ISBN: 978-0-00-846405-9
Price: £16.99, £16.99 (Export Price) , €None
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 with her family and far too many rescue dogs.

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'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 -