The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

** WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BRITISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 **

* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*

It's time to solve the murder of the century...

Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Wanting to know more, he took it to his English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's novels. Then Miss Iles disappeared on a class field trip, and Steven has no memory of what happened to her.

Now, out of prison after a long stretch, Steven decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. Was Miss Iles murdered? Was she deluded? Or was she right about the code? And is it still in use today?

Desperate to recover his memories and find out what really happened to Miss Iles, Steven revisits the people and places of his childhood. But it soon becomes clear that Edith Twyford wasn't just a writer of forgotten children's stories. The Twyford Code has great power, and he isn't the only one trying to solve it...

Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Alex Pavesi and S.J. Bennett, The Twyford Code will keep you up puzzling late into the night.©2022 Janice Hallett

Interesting and poignant but why???. has the language been censored with bleeps?

An interesting tale but it was incredibly irritating that whenever a character said a swear word it was censored with a bleep! What on earth do they think they are doing - this is not a children’s book - why are adult readers being treated like they are idiots or under aged readers? I have never encountered such knuckle dragging prurient censorship in any other Audible book - this book is British - is this some weird fundamentalist American imposed thing? Such infantile dumbing down of the original text is very disturbing and should have no part in contemporary literature or a reputable international literary supplier such as Audible.

For childhood fans of Enid Blyton

A mystery within a mystery within a code within a fish, this is a great listen.
Great narrator.