Book info

• Title The Sentence is Death
• Author Anthony Horowitz
• Year 2018
• Genre Mystery

Secrets can kill. Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home. Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182. What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone? Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne.

Thoughts

The second book in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series, and I loved it just as much, if not more than, the first one. This time it felt like we were getting even more of an insight into our author’s life - him trying to get a TV show filmed whilst also dealing with an unexpected murder and second book earlier than expected. I like how determined he was to figure it out first, and of course, how much he failed at that. And I love how it has thriller elements but done really wryly - the chase scene and the final stabbing, all done but really subdued. Brilliant.

Rating: 5 / 5