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It’s Two Mysteries In One

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

August 29, 2020 by jomidi 3 Comments

Double your pleasure, double your fun, with two mysteries in one! Anthony Horowitz has done it again. Following up his Magpie Murders, with the sequel Moonflower Murders. Moonflower Murders, is once again a book within a book. The “outer” book follows publisher Susan Ryeland as she is hired to solve a murder which occurred eight years ago at a hotel and my be tied to a hotel employee who has just gone missing. The ‘inner” book, was written by Susan’s former writer, the late Alan […]

Entertaining enough, but disappointing

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

January 18, 2020 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

Warning: While I try to avoid any outright spoilers, you might want to skip this review if you are planning on reading this novel. Summary: I found Moriarty entertaining enough, but compared to the fabulous House of Silk, it’s downright disappointing. Kind of like how Cars would be a decent enough animated movie from any other studio, but from the studio that created Toy Story, WALL-E, and The Incredibles, you’re like “Lame, Pixar.” Now, the review: I’m sitting in a little Japanese restaurant eating my lunch, […]

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 […]

Murder becomes him

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

December 27, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

The second in the Horowitz and Hawthorne detective series, this installment sees Horowitz’s namesake writer following ex-police private detective, Hawthorne, as he investigates the murder of a divorce lawyer in a tony London neighbourhood. As you might suspect for a lawyer, in particular a divorce lawyer, the victim had many enemies and the detecting team have quite a task in front of them. This was a quick and fun romp through London, with a side trip to the Yorkshire dales. Horowitz the author has a […]