TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dent,Susie
TI  - Guilty By Definition: The Clarendon Lexicographers # 1: a novel 
SN  - 9781464236105
AV  - PR6104.E588 G85 2025
U1  - 823/.92 23/eng/20250314
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Naperville, Illinois
PB  - Sourcebooks Landmark
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Women editors
KW  - Anonymous letters
KW  - Investigations
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Lexicographers
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - local
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
KW  - Detective fiction
KW  - tlcgt
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - new book 2025 fall
N2  - "When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it puzzles the team of lexicographers working there. It soon becomes clear that this is not the usual eccentric enquiry. The letter hints at secrets, lies, and a particular year. For Martha Thornhill, the new Senior Editor, the date can mean only one the summer her brilliant, beautiful older sister Charlie went missing. After a decade spent living abroad, Martha has returned to her father, her home, and the city whose institutions have defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When more letters arrive and the team pulls apart the clues within them, the questions become more insistent and troubling. Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, but as the mystery of her disappearance starts to unravel, someone is trying to lead the lexicographers to the truth, while another is desperate to keep it buried"-- Provided by publisher
ER  -