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Richard Price, the renowned divorce lawyer, is found brutally murdered, his head smashed with a £2,000 wine bottle. The mysterious number 182 is scrawled on the wall beside him.
Detective Constable Daniel Hawthorne is called in to investigate, bringing with him Anthony Horowitz, who is reluctantly drawn into Hawthorne’s world to write about the case.
Beneath Price’s pristine public persona, layers of deceit, betrayal, and revenge begin to surface. As they trace the threads of the story through literary circles and the secrets of Price’s past, the problem arises: the evidence leads to a labyrinth of lies.
Twenty-four hours before Price’s murder, a financial manager is found dead beneath the wheels of a train. He’s an old friend of the lawyer, and both are survivors of a cave exploration accident years ago in which a third friend drowned, leading Horowitz to wonder: Was this one murder, or two?
When the killer’s identity is revealed in an unforgettable, tense climax, the reader is stunned; not only by the ingenuity of the solution, but also by the realization that the dead aren’t the only ones who hold secrets.
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