The Vanishing Jury: A Novel
About this ebook
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 . . .
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About the author
Anthony Horowitz is one of the UK’s most prolific and successful writers, unique in being active in both adult and YA fiction, TV, theatre, and journalism. Several of his novels have been instant New York Times bestsellers. His Alex Rider spy series for young adults has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide and has become a hugely successful show on Amazon Prime Video. Marble Hall Murders, the third part of his Susan Ryeland series, is airing on PBS. He lives in London and was recently awarded the CBE for services to literature.
