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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
This story was very well plotted, with lots of great red herrings. I was sure I knew who the killer was, only to be completely wrong in the end. In that sense, this was a great mystery book, and I could have given it a much higher rating. However, to me it seems Horowitz (likely without intending to) is out to make the reader dislike him, and I wonder how true book Anthony Horowitz is to real-life Anthony Horowitz. Because the way he described the characters in this book, especially the female ones, was truly awful, and I wonder if he is aware of how misogynistic he is coming across.
You breathe in my ear
Your every word a trial
The sentence is death
"There's been another murder". This is what ex-detective Hawthorne says to Anthony Horowitz after brazenly interrupting the filming of Foyle's War.
A divorce lawyer has been brutally murdered in his own house with a very expensive wine bottle and a mysterious message has been left by the murderer on his wall.
When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.
We have the ever-present usual suspects, false alibis, a couple of red herrings and a few good twists, but what makes this whodunit so special is the author's excellent writing and story-telling.
Horowitz writes a satisfying page turner. It’s fun having Horowitz be one of the main characters in these mysteries. It gives the story a unique voice. It also gives the story a meta quality that can be a bit trippy, especially when Horowitz puts some of the characters from the story in the acknowledgment section at the end. Was this entire story made up? If he is acknowledging what I thought were fictional characters, they must be real people? Did he just get help from them to fill out details in the story? Or did some of these events really happen? Ultimately it makes the reading of the book more fun.
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
less entertaining than the previous book. the “villains” of this book were such one-dimensional middle-school level bullies, i don’t even know what the point was. the author himself was very cowardly and unresourceful and his incompetence was mildly infuriating at the best of times. the only things that kept me going were the needs to know the ending and to get to know hawthorne better.
adventurous
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No