An Evening with Susie Dent
Join writer and broadcaster Susie Dent to celebrate her brand-new linguistic mystery, Death Writ Large.
In conversation with a leading host, Countdown's resident lexicographer will explore her page-turning new story and unpack her bestselling linguistic mystery series.
Afterwards, Susie will be taking your questions and signing copies.
About Death Writ Large
'One of the finest mysteries I have ever read' - Rob Rinder
'A tantalising mystery' - Janice Hallett
A brand-new linguistic mystery from Countdown's resident lexicographer, Susie Dent, set in the city of Oxford
A mysterious letter. A silenced scholar. A city paved with injustice.
When mysterious symbols appear as graffiti around Oxford, lexicographer Martha Thornhill recognises them from an alphabet created by a deceased writer whose papers she once worked on. But this is no publicity stunt, and tensions intensify when further graffiti is found near the body of a university lecturer.
Martha is not the only one to have doubts when the suspicious death is assumed by police to be a suicide. Called upon to lend their linguistic expertise to the case, Martha and her colleagues begin to unearth a tragedy that extends beyond the ancient walls of the university.
As new messages portend more death, it's clear that a spirit of vengeance is stalking the city's streets, and may be reaching out towards them too.
About Susie Dent
Susie Dent is a writer and broadcaster on language. She recently celebrated thirty years as a co-presenter and the resident word expert on Channel 4’s Countdown, and also appears on the show’s comedy sister 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Susie comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news, and is the author of several non-fiction books on words and language. Her first novel, Guilty by Definition, was a Sunday Times bestseller.