It was probably a mistake to read the fourth in a series of books without reading the first three. I felt unengaged with Hawthorne because I was not familiar with him, and I found Horowitz' character incredibly boring. The plot line of the actual murder is quite entertaining, but it took far to long listening to the Horowitz character feeling sorry for himself to actually get to the meat of the story.

I may choose to read more of Horowitz work at some time, but I don't feel any great rush to do so.