{"id":4699,"date":"2022-10-11T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4699"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:40:50","slug":"the-sentence-is-death-by-anthony-horowitz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/the-sentence-is-death-by-anthony-horowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sentence is Death, by Anthony Horowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/sentence-is-death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/sentence-is-death.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>The Sentence is Death<\/em>, by Anthony Horowitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not usually a reader of detective fiction, but this was from Cancer Research and I like Horowitz\u2019s stuff generally. Here we have the not atypical pairing of misanthropic detective and faithful amanuensis, set in the present day. The detective is Daniel Hawthorne, ex-Met whose career came to an end when he threw a paedophile down the stairs; Sherlock Holmes without the charm. But what really makes it work is that the amanuensis is a fictionalised version of Horowitz himself, creator of <em>Foyle\u2019s War<\/em> and <em>Alex Rider<\/em> and all that. (Even in the middle of being beaten up he can\u2019t help correcting people who get Alex\u2019s name wrong.) It\u2019s an engaging and self-deprecating way to draw the reader in, and you get genuine insights into the ups and downs and politics of creating a TV series as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sentence is Death, by Anthony Horowitz I\u2019m not usually a reader of detective fiction, but this was from Cancer Research and I like Horowitz\u2019s stuff generally. Here we have the not atypical pairing of misanthropic detective and faithful amanuensis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/the-sentence-is-death-by-anthony-horowitz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4699\/revisions\/4730"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}