Death Writ Large, Hardcover

A brand-new linguistic mystery from Countdown's resident lexicographer, Susie Dent, set in the city of Oxford

'A MUST-READ' Woman's Own

'BRILLIANT, GRIPPING, UNPUTDOWNABLE' Kate Williams

'A COMPELLING MURDER MYSTERY PUNCTUATED BY DELICIOUS ETYMOLOGICAL PUZZLES' Tom Read-Wilson

'EVERY BIT AS GRIPPING AS HER DEBUT' Daily Mail

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 further graffiti is found near the body of a university lecturer. Martha is not the only one to have doubts when the suspicious death is assumed by police to be a suicide.