The Word is Murder

Aside from this being a fun little, twisty murder, what drew me to this book is the clever way Horowitz presents it.

Horowitz narrates it using his real-life background, so the plot feels like non-fiction: this story of a writer getting sucked into a murder by way of documenting the investigator, Hawthorne. It’s a brilliant way of telling a story, and I love (or maybe hate) the other protagonist, Hawthorne. The battle of wits between the protagonists is almost as fun (honestly, maybe more so) as their race to solve the mystery.

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Another writer-hero, Anthony Horowitz writes as himself in this page-turning whodunit. Well-known for his television work on Midsomer Murders, Poirot, and Foyle’s War, Horowitz knows how to craft a mystery. When ex-cop turned private investigator Nathaniel Hawthorne approaches Horowitz about ghostwriting a book about his cases, Horowitz isn’t interested. Annoying and eccentric, Hawthorne isn’t someone Horowitz wants to be around, let alone write about. But when a famous actor’s wealthy mother is murdered six hours after planning her own funeral, Horowitz gets pulled into the investigation anyway. Though very much a Sherlock Holmes and Watson relationship, Hawthorne… show more.