SPICE EXCLUSIVE Digital Book Club: Guilty by Definition - Susie Dent
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Grab a coffee/ tea/ glass of wine and settle down with your laptop or phone for the meeting! We will often have a short book related quiz so have a pencil and paper ready too.
Book: Guilty by Definition - Suzie Dent, suggested by Jenny. She said "I noticed this book was a nominee for a British book award and having seen Susie on Countdown I wonder how readable this might be!"
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The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent.
An anonymous letter arrives at the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary containing a challenge for the team of lexicographers working there. It's clear that's it's not the usual run-of-the-mill, eccentric enquiry. The letter hints at secrets, lies and a year. 2010. For Martha Thornhill, the new senior editor, that year can mean only one the summer her brilliant, beautiful older sister Charlie went missing.
After a decade living abroad, Martha has returned to her father, her family home and the city whose institutions have defined her family, but the ghosts she thought at rest were only waiting for her to return.
More letters arrive, pointing towards a secret in the heart of the dictionary itself. As Martha and her colleagues start pulling apart the clues, the questions become more insistent and troubling. Charlie's disappearance is one of a series of secret absences going back centuries, and someone wants to keep those secrets buried.
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