Anthony Horowitz: The word is murder (2018)
460 pages
English language
Published Nov. 15, 2018
When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
Kul metabok där Harowitz "spelar" sig själv och tar rygg på en privatdetektiv. Ett mystiskt mord leder till en mysig och rätt ofta självförklarande jakt genom England. Om det inte var för karaktärerna och att boken var hade en bra uppläsare skulle jag inte läst klart det. Men nu vill jag veta mer om detektiven Hawthorne. Jag har redan lagt till bok nummer två i läslistan.
I loved this book. It's a modern mystery In the style of a Sherlock Holmes story, but the Watson character is actually the author, making this book somewhat autobiographical. There is enough of the author's real life in the book to keep me Googling to find out what in the book is real and what is fiction. The Holmes character, Detective Hawthorne, is (apparently) fictional.
My biggest problem is Hawthorne has an unsavory characteristic, and while that characteristic was condemned, I felt it should have been given more attention.
