'The Sentence Is Death' Is A Bracing Addition To Any Beach Bag
Anthony Horowitz's new Inspector Hawthorne mystery is a sometimes too complex but ultimately fun tale set in and around London's literary scene, with plenty of axes to grind and nibs to sharpen.
Anthony Horowitz, well-known for, among other things, his Sherlock Holmes follow-on novels The House of Silk and Moriarty, returns with his second Inspector Hawthorne mystery, The Sentence Is Death (the first was The Word Is Murder; can I be faulted for hoping the next one will be titled A Novel Way to Die?).
Once again the narrator, "Anthony Horowitz," a writer whose CV is exactly analogous to his nonfictional
