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The second book in this metafictional British detective series.

The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

December 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

Overall thoughts: *I read this really fast, and it was a fun read, what with “Anthony” being so frustrated at being behind Hawthorne in figuring out what was going on, and in his capacity as a real-life writer where we get fun glimpses into the behind the scenes life of someone who makes art and rubs shoulders with famous people but isn’t really all that famous himself. *I am still puzzled by Horowitz’s fictional but supposedly real detective. What is his deal? By that I […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Anthony Horowitz, British, Detective Fiction, hawthorne, meta, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, The Sentence is Death

narfna's CBR11 Review No:155 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Anthony Horowitz, British, Detective Fiction, hawthorne, meta, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, The Sentence is Death ·
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Anthony Horowitz becomes a character in his own mystery novel.

The Word is Murder (Hawthorne, #1) by Anthony Horowitz

December 21, 2019 by narfna 5 Comments

It’s been almost three months since I finished this and I still don’t know what I want to say about this weird little book. This is a very meta murder mystery, in which Anthony Horowitz becomes a character in his own writing. (It is left up to you to decide how much of his “real life” that we see in the book is like his own real life, but I’m just going to presume background and biographical details are all true, though presumably if he […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Anthony Horowitz, hawthorne, meta, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, The Word Is Murder

narfna's CBR11 Review No:120 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Anthony Horowitz, hawthorne, meta, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, The Word Is Murder ·
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