A new mystery talent like that hybrid between the police and the adventure genre. Only that at times the adventure of reading Janice Hallett is a deductive challenge for the reader. The always desired alchemy between reading and action as something that went beyond those series of the eighties «Choose your own adventure».
An author like Hallett is in those, who is attacking new markets from here and there from that creativity focused on the narrative as something else. Fictions with a classic taste but at the same time oriented towards an avant-garde that must necessarily point to some kind of interaction.
Mystery or rather psychological suspense understood in its last instance. Tension achieved from reading involvement. Never has an invitation to read gone so much from the strictly formal to the most authentic invitation to enjoy an adventure, an entry to get lost among its pages in search of enigmas that make the criminal genre a fascinating game.
Janice Hallett's Top 3 Recommended Novels
The appeal
One can get dizzy from so many twists and turns that crime has been given in literature and cinema. A crime on which a multitude of characters revolve with their motives for the homicide. The question is knowing how to do it, transmitting that disturbing sensation of a truth that moves like a hot potato between characters who, in this novel, know how to play the mistake perfectly.
A murder. Fifteen suspects. Can you find out the truth? In the idyllic English town of Lockwood there is a mystery to solve. It all starts with the return of two townspeople after a long journey and ends with a tragic death. Although the presumed culprit has been sent to prison, lawyer Roderick Tanner suspects that he is innocent and orders his interns, Charlotte and Femi, to review all the evidence in the case.
Between the town's disastrous amateur theater company and the campaign to raise funds for the medical treatment of a little girl from the town, the murderer is hiding in plain sight. The evidence is there, waiting for someone to discover it.
But will Charlotte and Femi be able to solve the case? Can you solve it, reader? Janice Hallett, described by the Times as the Agatha Christie of the XNUMXst century, has created with The Appeal an extraordinary mystery novel, with multiple unexpected twists and that involves the reader in the resolution of the case as if he were another investigator. Dare you delve into Lockwood's secrets? Sunday Times Mystery of the Year
The Twyford Code
The perfect crime could be the one that presented Patricia Highsmith on strangers on a train. The question is the change of focus. The investigators didn't know as much as you, reader, about the plan among the strangers on the train. But in this case everyone is going blind and the clock is ticking, surely giving the escaped killer an advantage.
Edith Twyford was a world famous children's book writer, but now her only legacy is the rumored existence of the Twyford code: a series of clues hidden in her books that lead…to what? Nobody knows, but that is not why speculation has ceased.
Steve Smith can link almost every misfortune in his life to Edith Twyford. When he was a boy, he found one of her novels full of strange symbols written in the margin. He showed it to his teacher, Miss Bush, who immediately thought it contained the key to the code. Within a few weeks, Miss Bush disappeared, and Steve doesn't know if she's dead or alive...or if she discovered the mystery of the code or not. Now Steve is determined to find out.
But the Twyford code hides secrets and some would do anything to possess them, and Steve isn't the only one hot on his trail. The race to solve the mystery of the century has begun. Can you get there first?
