The Vanishing Jury

The seventh entry in the beloved mystery series featuring the sleuthing duo of Detective Daniel Hawthorne and the author’s fictional alter ego, Anthony Horowitz.

It starts with a trial. It ends with a murder.

AND THEN THERE WERE NINE . . .

Anthony has been called for jury service.

On trial is the troubled son of a retired High Court judge. Lawrence Gascoyne stands accused of killing his mother’s closest friend, hammering him to death with a sculptor’s mallet.

All the evidence is against Lawrence who is himself a sculptor and was seen carrying the murder weapon out of his house. He had even threatened the victim on the day of the murder.

Anthony, along with almost everyone else in the courtroom, believes that Lawrence is guilty.

But from the very start, somebody else has been secretly watching the trial.

And when a juror is murdered, former detective Daniel Hawthorne intervenes.

Although Hawthorne has his own secrets to hide . . .