The Sentence is Death : A Novel

New York Timesbestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mysterythe sequel to the brilliantly inventiveThe Word Is Murderto delve deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a day earlier, of his one-time friend

You shouldnt be here. Its too late . . .

Heard over the phone, these are the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death with a bottle of winea 1982 Chteau Lafite worth GBP2,000, to be precisein his bachelor pad.

Odd, considering Pryce didnt drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on his wall? And, most important, which of the victims many, many enemies did the deed?

Baffled, the police are forced to bring in private investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, whos getting rather good at this murder investigation business.

But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposedeven at the risk of death . . .