"Tim," I asked. "What's the French for 'murder'?" Tim shrugged. "Why do you want to know?" "I don't know." I stepped onto the escalator and let it carry me down. "I've just got a feeling it's something we're going to need." When the hard-up Diamond brothers, Tim and Nick, win a weekend for two in Paris, it looks as if their luck is taking a turn for the better. But looks can be deceptive. No sooner have they arrived in the French capital than the brothers are up to their necks in danger. There's a nasty smell in the air and it's not the cheese. If Nick and Tim aren't careful, their dream holiday could end up being a nightmare from which they'll never wake up...
Author Biography
Anthony Horowitz is a popular and prolific children's writer, whose books now sell in more than a dozen countries around the world. He has won numerous prizes for his books which include Stormbreaker (shortlisted for the 2000 Children's Book Award) and its sequels, Point Blanc and Skeleton Key, about reluctant teenage MI6 spy, Alex Rider; Groosham Grange and its sequel The Unholy Grail; Granny (shortlisted for the 1994 Children's Book Award); and the Diamond Brothers Trilogy - The Falcon's Malteser (which has been filmed with the title Just Ask for Diamond), followed by South by South East (which was dramatized in six parts on TV) and Public Enemy Number Two - to which three more short novels, The Blurred Man, The French Confection and I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, have been added. Anthony also writes extensively for TV, with credits including the hit series Murder in Mind, as well as Foyle's War; Midsomer Murders; Poirot; and Murder Most Horrid. He lives in north London with his family.
