Guilty by Definition: The instant Sunday Times bestselling linguistic mystery from Britain's wordsmith, Susie Dent (Clarendon Lexicographers)

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent is a linguistic mystery set in and around the Clarendon English Dictionary office. It is presented as a mystery centred on coded correspondence and the search for a missing woman.

Key details

• Author: Susie Dent
• Mystery novel with a linguistic focus
• Set in Oxford
• Centred on the Clarendon English Dictionary office
• Involves coded letters and a long-unsolved disappearance

Synopsis

A coded letter arrives at the Clarendon English Dictionary office, pointing to something unsettling connected to a particular year. For editor Martha Thornhill, the date carries a private weight: it leads back to the summer her older sister, Charlie, went missing.

Ten years later, with no answers and no resolution for the family, further letters begin to surface. As Martha and her team work through the linguistic trail, the clues draw them towards a troubling truth, while the emotional aftershocks of the disappearance continue to shape what follows.

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