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The Twyford Code: A Novel

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Notes From Your Bookseller

We’ve been big fans of Janice Hallett since her US debut, The Appeal last year. We’re also fans of secret codes in books. We ARE booksellers, after all! But don’t believe only us. More than one or two or many people, actually, have likened Hallett’s work to Agatha Christie. Spoiler alert! We are pretty sure you’ll be wanting to read a third book after Hallett’s sophomore release.

The mysterious connection between a teacher’s disappearance and an unsolved code in a children’s book is explored in this new novel from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) and author of The Appeal.

Forty years ago, Steven “Smithy” Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. When he showed it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, she believed that it was part of a secret code ...