Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 2
The Sentence Is Death
- Published
- 1 November 2018
- Pages
- 375
- ISBN-13
- 9781784757533
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Sentence Is Death followed on November 1, 2018, the second book at 375 pages, continuing the golden-age-style deduction of Hawthorne opposite the self-deprecating, complaining narration of "Horowitz" himself.
Its place in Hawthorne & Horowitz
The Sentence Is Death is book 2 in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. It follows The Word Is Murder. It is followed by A Line to Kill. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781784757533