The Sentence is Death: A mind-bending murder mystery from the bestselling author of THE WORD IS MURDER

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I thought the idea of putting himself in the book was something of a gimmick when I first learned of it, but Horowitz really pulls it off in this series. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Clearly she’s too good a suspect to be true, and she’s soon dislodged from the top spot by the news that Gregory Taylor, who’d long ago survived a cave-exploring accident together with Pryce that left their schoolmate Charles Richardson dead, has been struck and killed by a train at King’s Cross Station.

To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Shooting in London is always a horrible business, prohibitively expensive and fraught with difficulties.There are a few holes — for example, why do they bring in Hawthorne immediately when the culprit initially seems obvious? Despite struggling with the way this series mixes reality and fiction, they are good enough mysteries that I'm continuing to read my way through it. Though both Akira and Adrian seem equally contemptible, Adrian is continuously cast in a decent light while Akira is painted as intolerable, which seems to be motivated by the fact that Adrian is a man and Akira is a woman. The victim whose death requires Hawthorne’s attention this time is divorce attorney Richard Pryce, bashed to death in the comfort of his home with a wine bottle.

The structure of the book is complex on many levels but reading it is very easy and the book flows very well. But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide.The narrator explained that he met former Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne when the detective was hired as a consultant for a television series he was writing. He was not tall or well built but he gave the impression that, by whatever means necessary, he would never lose a fight. Although Anthony is not too keen on Hawthorne, the details of the case pique him and he reluctantly agrees to document the case.