I acquired to the top of my library books simply in time, whizzing by hundreds in February. Among the best was learn over final weekend. It was The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz.
That is the 4th e book during which Horowitz writes himself into the e book as one of many essential characters. He’s once more serving to Daniel Hawthorne who’s a personal investigator however this time it is Horowitz himself who’s accused of the crime of homicide. The lady killed is a theatre critic who has written a really savage piece about his newest play. A glorious story the place it turns into troublesome to determine between reality and fiction.
The play in query is known as Mindgame and he actually did write it and it toured across the nation earlier than going into London to the Vaudeville Theatre. It additionally had combined opinions.
That is the place the actual fact is seamlessly changed by the fiction. On the opening night time a lot hated critic Harriet Thorsby turns up on the First Evening Celebration and makes a number of pointed remarks to the actors, producer and to the author. Later a number of the solid go onto one other celebration the place they get to listen to in regards to the evaluate she is writing for the subsequent days newspaper. All of them drink far an excessive amount of and a few are heard to want her useless.
The subsequent morning Thorsby is discovered murdered by one of many decorative daggers which everybody was given as a primary night time present by the producer. Sadly the one finger prints on the dagger are these of Anthony Horowitz.
Discovering himself in a police cell (there’s a lot antagonism between Horowitz, Hawthorne and this explicit police lady from earlier encounters) he calls Hawthorne, though he’d already determined to not work with him anymore and to not write anymore books about their shared circumstances after ending engaged on the third.
Thank goodness Hawthorne solutions the telephone and manages to get Horowitz launched and collectively they set about discovering the actual assassin. Does this crime come from one thing that occurred a few years in the past?
I actually loved this e book and prevented dishonest so had no thought of who the assassin was till Hawthorne did a Poirot kind reveal on the finish, gathering everybody collectively within the theatre. It is so actual that I discovered myself googling to see if the actress he mentions really exists ?………In fact she does not!
Subsequent meal from the Experiment.
The third piece of quiche with the remainder of the potatoes made right into a potato salad utilizing mayo and my very own parsley – The chives I’ve in pots are simply displaying however not large enough to chop so as to add but. Eaten with extra of the frozen combined greens. (I do not get fed up with consuming quiche 4 days operating – all the time have various things with it)
It could have been Col’s 66th birthday at this time – solely now qualifying for his State Pension. Thank goodness he retired from the County Council at 55 and we had just a few years doing what we all the time needed to do – that’s to stay off the smallholding, campsite and odd jobs. It was the most effective time and went properly till his coronary heart issues after which the lymphoma only a few years later.
Again Briefly Tomorrow though it is Sunday.
Sue
