Author Anthony Horowitz has outdone himself again. In the 6th installment of the Horowitz Hawthorne mystery series . This time in A Deadly Episode , Horowitz and Hawthorne meet up with a producer who wants to make the first book, The Word is Murder, into a film. Horowitz plays himself and explains that though he is interested in writing the screenplay, the producer wants someone else to write it. his manager agrees that he is too busy to write it. So he and Hawthorne are on set to watch as actors play their characters and the story gets told not quite to Horowitz’s liking.
Anthony is coming to terms with all these issues including that he does not like their choice for the actor playing him, though no one seems to have wanted the role. Then there is an actual murder of one of the cast members and Hawthorne and Horowitz are once again working to uncover the murderer.
Their relationship is as usual fraught with disagreements and difference of opinion. It is so entertaining to watch how Anthony Horowitz writes himself into the story using real life information about himself, his wife and his career to interact with a fictional character. Hawthorne is the private detective who has been fired from the police department. Horowitz is the follower who writes the story after the murder is solved. He is the Watson to Hawthorne’s Holmes.
