A HUGELY successful author and TV writer is set to pay a visit to Oswestry.

Anthony Horowitz, who created hit ITV series Foyle's War, will talk talks about new book The Sentence is Death at the Wynnstay Hotel on Tuesday, December 4.

Death, deception and a detection stalk the pages of Horowitz’s new murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring private investigator Daniel Hawthorne.

The book follows Hawthorne as he is drafted in by police to investigate the baffling murder of a lawyer.

Anthony Horowitz is the author of the bestselling teen spy series, Alex Rider, and is also responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders.

He has also written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; two James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day; and his most recent stand-alone novel, Magpie Murders.

Doors open at midday and the event starts at 12.30pm.

Tickets are £10 (fully redeemable against a new copy of The Sentence is Death).

For booking details visit http://www.bookabookshop.co.uk