This month we are featuring the book “A Deadly Episode” by Anthony Horowitz. Murder disrupts the filming of—what else? The Word Is Murder, based on the first novel starring author Horowitz and his sometime partner, ex-copper Daniel Hawthorne. With commendably dramatic timing, gofer Izzy Mays bursts into the middle of a pivotal shot on location at The Stade in Hastings to announce that Hawthorne’s been murdered. Of course, what she means (though Horowitz takes his time clarifying this ambiguity) is that David Caine, the rising star playing Hawthorne, has been fatally stabbed in the neck. The two plots, past and present or, to be more precise, past and present-day-adaptation-of-a-story-from-the-less-distant-past, are eventually woven together in ways only Horowitz’s most devoted fans will celebrate.

Yes, it has its playfully witty moments, but it’s a distinctly minor work in the author’s brainteasing canon.  

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anthony-horowitz/a-deadly-episode/