Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 4

The Twist of a Knife

Published
18 August 2022
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780062938206
Type
novel
Cover of The Twist of a Knife

About this book

The Twist of a Knife came out exactly a year after A Line to Kill, on August 18, 2022, the fourth book at 384 pages, with "Horowitz" now dragged personally into a murder case in the series' continuing metafictional game.

Key facts about The Twist of a Knife

Anthony Horowitz wrote The Twist of a Knife, a novel on our list. It has been out since 18 August 2022. The book has 384 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062938206 to find the main one.

The Twist of a Knife is book 4 of 6 in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Word Is Murder (2017). A Deadly Episode is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 April 2026.

Additionally, Anthony Horowitz writes The Diamond Brothers, Groosham Grange and Alex Rider, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our mystery, middle-grade fantasy and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, A Deadly Episode is the latest published Anthony Horowitz book on file, from 23 April 2026.

About Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz is a British author and screenwriter known for an unusually wide range spanning children's spy fiction, literary crime pastiche, and prestige television. See every Anthony Horowitz book in order.

Its place in Hawthorne & Horowitz

The Twist of a Knife is book 4 in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. It follows A Line to Kill. It is followed by 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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