The Vanishing Jury

<p><b>* AVAILABLE ONLY WHILE STOCKS LAST – THE SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION: features a gold foiled design underneath the dust jacket and is exclusive to the first print run in the UK only *</b></p><p><b>From the globally bestselling author of <i>Marble Hall Murders </i>and <i>A Deadly Episode</i> comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne series set during a murder trial.</b><Br></p><p>Anthony has been called for jury service.</p><p>On trial is the troubled son of a retired High Court judge. Lawrence Gascoyne stands accused of killing his mother’s closest friend, hammering him to death with a sculptor’s mallet.</p><p>All the evidence is against Lawrence who is himself a sculptor and was seen carrying the murder weapon out of his house. He had even threatened the victim on the day of the murder.</p><p>Anthony, along with almost everyone else in the courtroom, believes that Lawrence is guilty.</p><p>But from the very start, somebody else has been secretly watching the trial.</p><p>And when a juror is murdered, former detective Daniel Hawthorne intervenes.</p><p><b>Although Hawthorne has his own secrets to hide ...</b><Br>___________</p><p><u>Praise for Anthony Horowitz:</u></p><p>‘An absolutely <b>wonderful writer</b>’ Richard Osman</p><p>‘Easily the<b> greatest of our crime writers</b>’ <i>Sunday Times</i></p><p>'<b>Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz</b>’ <i>Crime Time FM</i></p><p>‘Horowitz is <b>undeniably brilliant</b>’ Metro London</p><p>‘[Horowitz is] a <b>master puppeteer</b>’ <i>The Times</i></p><p>‘The <b>master of the mystery</b>’ Style</p><p>‘The <b>King</b> of the <b>clever whodunit</b>’ Good Housekeeping</p><p>'Anthony Horowitz is a <b>national treasure</b>' Ragnar Jónasson</p>