Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 4

The Twist of a Knife

by Anthony Horowitz

Published
18 August 2022
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780062938206
Type
novel

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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.

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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