The Appeal: The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month

'brilliantly Original, Inventive And Clever'phoebe Morganin A Town Full Of Secretssomeone Was Murdered.someone Went To Prison.and Everyone's A Suspect.can You Uncover The Truth?dear Reader,enclosed Are Documents Relating To The Events Surrounding The Fairway Players' Staging Of All My Sons, And The Tragic Death Of One Of Its Members. Another Member Is Currently In Prison For The Crime. We Have Reason To Suspect That They Are Innocent, And That There Were Far Darker Secrets That Have Yet To Be Revealed.we Believe That The Killer Has Given Themselves Away. It's There In Writing, Hidden In The Emails, Texts, And Letters. Will You Accept The Challenge? Can You Uncover The Truth? Do You Dare?the Standout Debut Thriller Of 2021 That Delivers Multiple Brilliant Twists, And Will Change The Way You Think About The Modern Crime Novel. "Dear Reader - enclosed are all the documents you need to solve a case. It starts with the arrival of two mysterious newcomers to the small town of Lockwood, and ends with a tragic death. Someone has already been convicted of this brutal murder and is currently in prison, but we suspect they are innocent. What's more, we believe far darker secrets have yet to be revealed.Throughout the Fairway Players' staging of All My Sons and the charity appeal for little Poppy Reswick's life-saving medical treatment, the murderer hid in plain sight. Yet we believe they gave themselves away. In writing. The evidence is all here, between the lines, waiting to be discovered. Will you accept the challenge? Can you uncover the truth?"--Publisher In a town full of secrets, someone was murdered. Someone went to prison. And everyone's a suspect. Can you uncover the truth? Dear Reader, Enclosed are documents relating to the events surrounding the Fairway Players' staging of All My Sons, and the tragic death of one of its members. Another member is currently in prison for the crime. We have reason to suspect that they are innocent, and that there were far darker secrets that have yet to be revealed. We believe that the killer has given themselves away. It's there in writing, hidden in the emails, texts, and letters. Will you accept the challenge? Can you uncover the truth? Do you dare? An extraordinarily inventive thriller debut in which the reader is challenged to solve the crime... and predict the victim. With the small-town intrigue of The Casual Vacancy and the deft plotting of Agatha Christie, this is unlike any novel you've read before.