​Join writer and broadcaster Susie Dent to celebrate her brand-new linguistic mystery, Death Writ Large.

​In conversation with a leading host, Countdown’s resident lexicographer will explore her page-turning new story and unpack her bestselling linguistic mystery series.

​Afterwards, Susie will be taking your questions and signing copies.

​About Death Writ Large

​A brand-new linguistic mystery from Countdown’s resident lexicographer, Susie Dent, set in the city of Oxford

A mysterious letter. A silenced scholar. A city paved with injustice.

When mysterious symbols appear as graffiti around Oxford, lexicographer Martha Thornhill recognises them from an alphabet created by a deceased writer whose papers she once worked on. But this is no publicity stunt, and tensions intensify when further graffiti is found near the body of a university lecturer.

Martha is not the only one to have doubts when the suspicious death is assumed by police to be a suicide. Called upon to lend their linguistic expertise to the case, Martha and her colleagues begin to unearth a tragedy that extends beyond the ancient walls of the university.

​As new messages portend more death, it’s clear that a spirit of vengeance is stalking the city’s streets, and may be reaching out towards them too.

​About Susie Dent

​Susie Dent is a writer and broadcaster on language. She recently celebrated thirty years as a co-presenter and the resident word expert on Channel 4’s Countdown, and also appears on the show’s comedy sister 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Susie comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news, and is the author of several non-fiction books on words and language. Guilty by Definition is her first novel.