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reviewed The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

The Twyford Code (Hardcover, 2023, Atria Books) 4 stars

Forty years ago, Steven “Smithy” Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by …

Astonishing book by astonishing author

4 stars

The author renders the traditional thriller with a very original twist in this novel where the story unfolds be reading one's way though a series of transcriptions of audio files. She plays with the fact that it is a machine transcription where words can easily get misspellt, for instance "mustard" instead of "must have", and all this while the dictator of the files getting transcribed is hunting for something by unraveling a code.

You can already see the complications, transcription mistakes, code to decipher based only on said transcription.

A pleasure to read!