Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 6

A Deadly Episode

by Anthony Horowitz

Published
23 April 2026
Pages
265
ISBN-13
9780063305748
Type
novel

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Cover of A Deadly Episode

About this book

A Deadly Episode, published April 23, 2026, is the shortest book in the series at 265 pages, its sixth and most recent installment, continuing Anthony Horowitz's metafictional pairing of himself as narrator with detective Hawthorne.

Its place in Hawthorne & Horowitz

A Deadly Episode is book 6 in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. It follows Close to Death. See the full Hawthorne & Horowitz reading order.

Hawthorne & Horowitz is Anthony Horowitz's adult crime series with a metafictional trick at its center: the narrator is "Anthony Horowitz" himself, a novelist reluctantly dragged into real murder investigations by Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, prickly ex-detective he's been hired to write a true-crime book about. Hawthorne solves the cases with classic golden-age deduction; "Horowitz" bumbles along as an unreliable, self-deprecating Watson figure, complaining about his own contracts and screenwriting deadlines…

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