Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 2

The Sentence Is Death

by Anthony Horowitz

Published
1 November 2018
Pages
375
ISBN-13
9781784757533
Type
novel

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Cover of The Sentence Is Death

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…

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