The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz #2)

by Anthony Horowitz

a woman who gave every impression of being in a constant battle with life without necessarily being on the winning side.

He was thin and gangly, tall for his age, with curly hair and freckles. He was caught somewhere between the boy he had been and the man he might become, as if his body hadn’t quite made up its mind which way to go.

Do all policemen swear? Hawthorne, Grunshaw and now Lofty all had an issue with the English language that bordered on Tourette’s.