The Sentence is Death

Passion, deception, an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitzs brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.

Easily the greatest of our crime writersSunday Times
‘An absolutely wonderful writer’ Richard Osman
My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony HorowitzShari Lapena
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Secrets can kill.

Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home.

Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182.

What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone?

Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
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Pure pleasure for readers ... A must-read delightWALL STREET JOURNAL
Anthony Horowitz gets away with murder in all sorts of ways and emerges triumphantThe Times
This is crime fiction as dazzling entertainment, sustained by writing as skilfully light-footed as Fred AstaireSunday Times Crime Club
A crime story that keeps you up into the small hours... a page-turning mysteryMetro
Sheer genius ... A joy from start to finishIndependent
Fans of traditional puzzle mysteries will be enthralledPublishers Weekly
Huge fun... Its hard to know why anyone who loves a good mystery wouldnt thoroughly enjoy the rideIrish Independent
Succeeds on all levels ... Horowitz has the Midas touchBooklist
No one currently working the field has anywhere near this much ingenuity to burnKIRKUS