Death Writ LargeA brand new linguistic mystery from Countdown's resident lexicographer, Susie Dent, set in the city of Oxford **AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW** A mysterious letter. A silenced scholar. A city paved with injustice. When mysterious symbols appear as graffiti around Oxford, lexicographer Martha Thornhill recognises them from an alphabet created by a deceased writer whose papers she once worked on. But this is no publicity stunt, and tensions intensify when

It is a terrible

he becomes enamoured and begins inventing a whole new life with her at its centre

and the Powers of the Valar

which began with The Court of Broken Knives

Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone

the hostility of the locals

Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday

Dan Carter

He finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds

and remind us that a new beginning is only a page away

and Brunetti must enter an inferno to discover who is poisoning the land and fouling the waters of Venice's lagoon

to a deadly night-long showdown with a frenzy of sharks years later