by Anthony Horowitz, 2019, HarperCollins books

This is the second book in the Detective Hawthorne series. The murder mystery unfolds very slowly this time. It’s about a man who is killed in his home beaten over the head and eventually stabbed by a wine bottle. The victim was a lawyer who had just completed a messy divorce case with what seemed like a settlement that satisfied both parties.

The book is fun to read, and Hawthorne is his usual unlikable self. Horowitz reluctantly accompanies him until the murder is solved. The first book was more interesting as it was the first time that the author had inserted himself into the novel. It still seems to work okay, although it’s not as clever as it was in the first book.