Tag Archives: Hawthorne

Book Review: The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

Book #184 of 2019: The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz (Hawthorne #2) I’m still not sold on the metafictional conceit of this mystery series, which places its author as a Watson-type narrator to the investigations of a supposed Holmes-like acquaintance. This second novel continues that detective’s odious streak as well: it’s true that Anthony …

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Book Review: The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

Book #163 of 2018: The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (Hawthorne #1) A solid whodunnit mystery, but not quite as imaginative as author Anthony Horowitz’s earlier novel Magpie Murders (to which this story is unrelated, despite the similar title). The hook this time around is that Horowitz is writing as a fictionalized version of …

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