If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...

In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.

Houston is the world's most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.

And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...

About the Author
Philip Kerr has written over thirty books of which the best-known are the internationally renowned and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. The sixth book in the series, If the Dead Rise Not, won the CWA Historical Dagger. His other works include several standalone thrillers, non-fiction and an acclaimed series for younger readers, The Children of the Lamp. Philip died in March 2018, days before the publication of his 13th Bernie Gunther thriller, Greeks Bearing Gifts. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature shortly before his death.

Reviews
A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship * Spectator *
This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour * Sunday Mirror *
'A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship' Andrew Taylor, Spectator Books of the Year. * Spectator *
'This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour' Sunday Mirror. * Sunday Mirror *



Book Information
ISBN 9781782065807
Author Philip Kerr
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Quercus Publishing
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Weight(grams) 300g
Dimensions(mm) 204mm * 128mm * 28mm