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Janice Hallett

Janice Hallett is a British author, screenwriter and an award-winning journalist, best known for her phenomenally successful debut thriller The Appeal.

Before her breakout entry into the realms of crime fiction, Janice Hallett worked as a journalist, magazine editor and speech writer for the Cabinet Office and Home Office, as well as writing for the stage and screen. Her first feature film Retreat (co-written and directed by Carl Tibbetts) came out in 2011, and she won the award for Best New Screenplay at the 2014 British Independent Film Festival.

In 2021, Hallett published her chart-topping debut thriller The Appeal. Composed of emails, texts, police transcripts and other documents, this unique interactive murder mystery filled with amateur sleuths and thespians was selected as Waterstones Thriller of the Month for July 2021 to phenomenal success. Hallett’s second novel The Twyford Code (2022) revolves around a secret code spotted in a famous children’s author’s work by an English teacher who subsequently disappears, and the former pupil who starts to investigate her fate decades later.

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From the modern queen of puzzle-box mysteries and author of The Appeal comes another intricately plotted whodunit comprised of found evidence, as a village pub's quiz night holds the key to a shocking murder.
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The much-awaited, charmingly chilling follow up to Janice Hallett's megaselling The Appeal finds old and new rivalries and suspicions surfacing as the amateur thespians of the Fairway Players prepare to stage Agatha Christie's The Hollow.
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Books by Janice Hallett

The Appeal
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The Silent Appeal
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The Twyford Code
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The Examiner
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The Killer Question
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The Killer Question
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The Christmas Appeal
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The Christmas Appeal
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Children's Books by Janice Hallett

A Box Full of Murders
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Death at the Museum
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Sects Appeal: Janice Hallett's Favourite Books on Cults

The author of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels reveals her top 5 books on cults.

Janice Hallett on Her Favourite Code-Cracking Books

Janice Hallett, bestselling author of crime phenomenon The Appeal and the gripping new thriller The Twyford Code, explores codes in fact and fiction.

Janice Hallett Recommends Her Top Small Town Big Reads

Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal, our Thriller of the Month for July, selects her favourite thrillers set in small communities.