South by Southeast - Anthony Horowitz

"South by South East" is the third instalment in the Diamond Brothers series by famous author Anthony Horowitz. When I picked up this book, I had high expectations having loved the first two in the series. The quality of the first two books, to me, seemed almost impossible to live up to ... but I only had to read up to the introduction of the dilemma, and the ingenuity with which Horowitz brings up the problem told me that this was going to be another good one. This book was written by Horowitz in 1991, and was finally published 8 years later in 1997. Some extremely clever writing combines moments of high tension with moments of great humour, making ...  Read the complete review

This is the third instalment in the Diamond saga, originally published in 1991 and written by the brilliant children's writer Anthony Horowitz, following the very enjoyable The Falcon's Maltesers and the even better 'Public enemy number two', both starring the rather inept private investigator, Tim Diamond and his brother Nick. ** BRIEF PLOT... So called private investigator Tim Diamond, (real name Herbert Simple), and his younger, albeit more intelligent brother, Nick are broke living in a small flat and are again completely broke. But when a rather strange man walks into there flat/office one morning, buying Tim's coat and ...  Read the complete review