October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

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A Deadly Episode, May 2026
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Marble Hall Murders, May 2025
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With a Mind to Kill, June 2023
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The Twist of a Knife, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Unti Bond #3, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
A Line to Kill, October 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Moonflower Murders, November 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Sentence Is Death, June 2020
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Sentence Is Death, June 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Forever and a Day, November 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Magpie Murders, June 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Trigger Mortis, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The House Of Silk A Sherlock Holmes Novel, October 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The House of Silk, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Scorpia Rising, April 2011
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THE TWIST OF A KNIFE
By: Anthony Horowitz

Hawthorne and Horowitz #4
Harper
November 2022
On Sale: November 15, 2022
384 pages
ISBN: 0062938185
EAN: 9780062938183
Kindle: B09SHW84CW
Hardcover / e-Book
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In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne.

“I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over.

The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind.

His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater in London’s West End. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night.

The play is panned by the critics. In particular, Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby gives it a savage review, focusing particularly on the writing. The next day, Throsby is stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger which turns out to belong to Anthony, and has his fingerprints all over it.

Anthony is arrested by an old enemy . . . Detective Inspector Cara Grunshaw. She still carries a grudge from her failure to solve the case described in the second Hawthorne adventure, The Sentence is Death, and blames Anthony. Now she’s out for revenge.

Thrown into prison and fearing for both his personal future and his writing career, Anthony is the prime suspect in Throsby’s murder and when a second theatre critic is found to have died in mysterious circumstances, the net closes in. Ever more desperate, he realizes that only one man can help him.

But will Hawthorne take the call?