The Twyford Code: A Novel

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER [A] delicious premise and clever execution....with a bravura final section. The New York Times The mysterious connection between a teachers disappearance and an unsolved code in a childrens book is explored in this new novel from the modern Agatha Christie (The Sunday Times, London) and author of The Appeal. Forty years ago, Steven Smithy Smith found a copy of a famous childrens book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. When he showed it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, she believed that it was part of a secret code that ran through all of Twyfords novels. And when she later disappeared on a class field trip, Smithy becomes convinced that she had been right. Now, out of prison after a long stretch, Smithy decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. In a series of voice recordings on an old iPhone, Smithy alternates between visiting the people of his childhood and looking back on the events that later landed him in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Edith Twyford wasnt just a writer of forgotten childrens stories. The Twyford Code holds a great secret, and Smithy may just have the key. Filled with numerous clues, acrostics, and red herrings, this thrilling scavenger hunt for the truth is delightfully deceptive and thoroughly immersive (Publishers Weekly, starred review).