The Sentence Is Death: A Novel

"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 narrator, “Anthony Horowitz,” a writer whose CV is exactly analogous to his nonfictional creator’s, teams up reluctantly with the somewhat shady Daniel Hawthorne to solve a murder involving a bottle of wine and a long marital feud. With just enough intrigue about Hawthorne’s past and present connections and loads of British place names, this novel satisfies like a bracing cup of tea."