The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4)

by Anthony Horowitz

I’m just saying that you shouldn’t believe everything he says.’ ‘I never believe everything anyone says.’ ‘Including me?’ He smiled. ‘Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?’

That was something Harriet learned from him, the pleasure that comes with the twist of a knife.

Of course, Hawthorne hadn’t believed Adrian Wells’s ridiculous assertion that all along I had been a serial killer of critics who didn’t like my work. Or so I told myself.

There was no way round it. I think if I’d been on the jury, I’d have convicted me.

‘Actually, mate, that’s exactly the problem. The facts. That’s what’s been getting in my way. There are too many of them and they can’t be right. That’s what I need to sort out.’