The fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne.
This is the fourth in a series in which Horowitz the real-life writer has audaciously and quite effectively inserted himself, or some version of himself, into his novel. (You don’t have to have read the others to thoroughly enjoy this one) ... it’s more fun than confusing. Like Glass Onion,The Twist of a Knife is as much a work of dry humor as it is a murder mystery ... a classic race-against-the-clock crime fiction cocktail. While paying homage to the genre’s golden age, Horowitz also gives a nod to Alfred Hitchcock, adopting his voyeuristic approach to storytelling ... Borrowing from here and there — including from himself — Horowitz has, paradoxically, created something wholly original.
The thing I most like about the mysteries of Anthony Horowitz — besides their smooth writing, skillful plotting and delightful sense of humor — is this: Horowitz gives you clues. He lays them all out there, and if you are sharp and paying attention, you can solve them. I assume. I never have ... All the clues were there. So did I solve it? I did not. But Hawthorne did, and maybe that's enough.
