The Sentence is Death: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Loss of life, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to cover stalk the web pages of Anthony Horowitz’s brilliant murder mystery, the next in the bestselling series starring DETECTIVE AGENCY Daniel Hawthorne.

“Avoid being here. It’s as well late . “

These, heard more than the phone, were the last recorded terms of successful celebrity-divorce attorney Richard Pryce, found out bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad using a container of wine-a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise.

Odd, approximately The Phrase is Death: A Novel considering he didn’t beverage. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted in the wall with the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?

Baffled, the authorities are compelled to generate DETECTIVE AGENCY Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the writer Anthony, who’s really getting rather proficient at this murder investigation business.

But while Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to cover. As our reluctant narrator becomes a lot more embroiled in the event, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed-even at the chance of death . . .