The Sentence is Death
2018

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15

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick-takes post to catch up on my “To Write About” stack—emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness..

A notorious divorce lawyer is bludgeoned with an expensive bottle of wine and Horowitz finds himself dragged away from his day job by Hawthorne to chronicle the investigation.

Hawthorne seems to be more disagreeable this time out—almost like he was trying to be off-putting. Horowitz (the character) is a decent source of comic relief as he struggles to prove himself.

The mystery was pretty compelling—and while I think I got it before the duo (well, before Horowitz, anyway), it was a bit trickier than the first. All in all, it's a fun listen.

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