The Sentence is Death: A mind-bending murder mystery from the bestselling author of THE WORD IS MURDER

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Horowitz bungled the discussion about homophobia in “The Word is Murder” — he frets about giving a platform for Hawthorne’s very apparent homophobia, but ultimately does so anyway — and “The Sentence is Death” is no better. I feel like I should applaud Horowitz for trying to find a new angle on a very saturated genre - something he did far more successfully with 'Magpie Murders' and its sequel.

Though both Akira and Adrian seem equally contemptible, Adrian is continuously cast in a decent light while Akira is painted as intolerable, which seems to be motivated by the fact that Adrian is a man and Akira is a woman. Clearly she’s too good a suspect to be true, and she’s soon dislodged from the top spot by the news that Gregory Taylor, who’d long ago survived a cave-exploring accident together with Pryce that left their schoolmate Charles Richardson dead, has been struck and killed by a train at King’s Cross Station. Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz’s brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. I also find it hard to shake the feeling it's all just a clever ploy to cross-promote the vast amount of content Horowitz has generated (a truly impressive portfolio of TV, adult and children's fiction).As always, Hawthorne doggedly solves the crime whilst Anthony stumbles along, misconstruing the clues, interrupting at unfortunate times, and generally making a hash of things. The police are forced to hand the case to Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne, who takes it on with characteristic relish. AH, as the narrator, is the observer in this book and the reader sees everything through his eyes, making us strongly connected to him. Richard Pryce is an elegant, smooth-tongued lawyer who has made a fortune out of celebrity divorces - and a lot of enemies in the process. Suicide, Not Accident: One of the main questions in the case is whether or not Gregory Taylor, the man who died when he fell onto some tracks in the London Underground the day before Pryce's murder, was also murdered and how that ties into the Pryce case.

The atmosphere is that of a traditional mystery novel with clues being presented to the reader (through the narrator) at every opportunity. He was not tall or well built but he gave the impression that, by whatever means necessary, he would never lose a fight. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed—even at the risk of death .Real Person Cameo: Anthony Horowitz's wife Jill and agent Hilda Starke pop up again as characters; neither of them like Anthony writing Hawthorne books. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). I'm sure many people don't have that pet hate, and therefore will have no problem at all with the concept.