A review by shmadsie
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

3.0

3.5. This has definitely been my favorite so far and I think a lot of that had to do with getting glimpses of Hawthorne's sense of humor, which is objectively freaking grand. Anthony showing up to hide from the police at his place and him being completely unconcerned but hamming it up to try to get Anthony going was hilarious. As was him staging the denouement in a Christie-esque fashion solely for it to make a great scene in the future book. What took away from it this time for me was that it was occasionally hard to suspend disbelief, and it was because the book was so good at getting me to do it to start that it was so jarring to resurface. I loved the comedy of that phone call with Anthony's wife but her being such a removable piece as the main character's spouse just didn't seem very realistic at all, the same way it's weird that Anthony's kids don't even get a mention while he's worrying about potentially going to prison. It's a hard thing to insert yourself into a story but, if you're going to do it, there's no halfway. Normally it works because this is just his job, following a "detective" around for a story, but this time it was incredibly personal and that means a personal life has got to come into play - even if you limit it to a forty-eight hour deadline.