{"product_id":"the-mirror-kills-amenda-hawkins-9798197010629","title":"The Mirror Kills: A 1920s England Crime Thriller of Doubles, Deception and Murder.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngland, 1923. Two women share the same face. Only one of them is real.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen society hostess Vivienne Ashworth is found dead in her locked drawing room, a silver-handled letter opener buried in her chest and her expression frozen in disbelief, the local constabulary concludes she fell victim to a common burglar. Inspector Edmund Rowe is not so certain. The room was locked from the inside. Nothing was stolen. And the only mirror in the room, an ornate, floor-length antique, has been turned to face the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a murder investigation in the fog-wrapped market town of Ashwell Cross quickly reveals itself to be something far more disturbing. Vivienne Ashworth, it emerges, was not the woman she appeared to be. For three years she had been living the life of another woman entirely, a woman who vanished from a Sussex estate in 1920 and was never found. A woman whose family quietly paid to have the matter buried, along with the investigation and the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspector Rowe, a war-damaged detective with an instinct for patterns that others dismiss as obsession, begins pulling at threads that unravel not just one family's secrets but a network of forgery, identity theft, and cold-blooded calculation that stretches from the drawing rooms of the English countryside to the corridors of Whitehall. At the centre of it all is a question that Inspector Rowe cannot stop asking: if the dead woman was not Vivienne Ashworth, then who is Vivienne Ashworth, and where is she now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the glittering, hollow world of 1920s England, a society still flinching from the wounds of the Great War, reinventing itself with jazz and cocktails and deliberate forgetting, The Mirror Kills is a richly atmospheric historical mystery thriller that explores identity, obsession, and the dangerous art of becoming someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, and Jacqueline Winspear will find in Inspector Rowe a detective of rare depth: methodical, quietly relentless, and haunted by the suspicion that the most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers who love: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical mystery fiction set in 1920s England between the wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePsychological crime thrillers with unreliable identities and double lives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetective fiction with intelligent, complex female characters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAtmospheric period mysteries with social intrigue and class tension\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePage-turning whodunits where the victim is as mysterious as the killer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn The Mirror Kills, you will find: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA locked-room murder with a solution that genuinely surprises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA richly researched 1920s English setting that feels authentic on every page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA detective whose methods are as compelling as the mystery he unravels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes of identity, forgery, and the price of reinvention\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA completely resolved mystery, no cliffhanger, full and satisfying justice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho is reflected in the mirror? And which woman did the mirror kill?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReads as a complete standalone The Novel with a suspense and mystery.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amenda Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197010629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d","brand":"Amenda Hawkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173510095103,"sku":"9798197010629","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_848fbc7a-5942-40bd-971d-0cc3f3b86118.jpg?v=1788954940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mirror-kills-amenda-hawkins-9798197010629","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}