A Line to Kill: a locked room mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author (Hawthorne and Horowitz, 3)

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A Line to Kill: a locked room mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author (Hawthorne and Horowitz, 3)

A Line to Kill: a locked room mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author (Hawthorne and Horowitz, 3)

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Anthony Horowitz is best known for his young adult and television writing, but we find his adult crime fiction much more appealing. When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation—or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. For the reader, the unfolding is like unwrapping a present that has been concealed in multiple layers.

The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. His Alex Rider series made him known as one of the most seminal children's authors of the last decades. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. This is a worthy addition to this highly addictive series, and I can't wait to begin the next installment. com, an online casino – is owned by Charles le Mesurier one of whose employees is one Derek Abbott, the alleged paedophile who Hawthorne allegedly threw down a flight of stairs, an action which led to his leaving the police.The fastidious observations by the author offer a guiding light through which we are able to participate and speculate about where the story is going. The action is set on the island of Alderney at a literary festival which I suspect was an actual event attended by the author - what a joy to read the novel if you had been there yourself. If I was a sidekick in the book, it would turn everything on its head because suddenly instead of being the cleverest person in the book, the author who knows everything, I would know nothing. At the end of the tenth book, we find out what makes Hawthorne such a difficult and contrary human being. Insisting he loves all his writing, Horowitz admits a partiality for the Alex Rider books, which has helped a whole generation find literature, books and reading.

The island itself is a small, desolate place and the closed community mentality dictates that everyone is aware of everyone else's business. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.The Susan Ryeland series is already an ingenious and compelling homage to the world’s most successful author of fiction and I wondered if A Line to Kill would blur the boundaries between the two series. His descriptive phrases encompass all the senses - just on the first page "traffic that rushes past like dust in the vacuum tube of a hoover" encourages visions, smell, sound and even the taste of the fumes.

The other luminaries invited to the tiny island include blind psychic Elizabeth Lovell, TV chef Marc Bellamy, war historian George Elkin, children’s franchiser Anne Cleary, and French performance poet Maïssa Lamar.Last time when we spoke for Moonflower Murders , we were also speaking of the third book in his Daniel Hawthorne series. At the same time, I hope I was giving the audience all the pleasure of a whodunit, the clues, the suspects, the red herrings and the surprise of the ending. Many thanks to Anthony Horowitz and Penguin Books for the chance to read this ARC, courtesy of NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.



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