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A Line to Kill

A Novel

October 18, 2022 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781443459112
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Description

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz.

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.

Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an eccentric gathering that includes a bestselling children's author, a French poet, a TV chef turned cookbook author, a blind psychic, and a war historian--along with a group of ornery locals embroiled in an escalating feud over a disruptive power line. 

When a local grandee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the case. The island is locked down, no one is allowed on or off, and it soon becomes horribly clear that a murderer lurks in their midst. But who?

Both a brilliant satire on the world of books and writers and an immensely enjoyable locked-room mystery, A Line to Kill is a triumph--a riddle of a story full of brilliant misdirection, beautifully set-out clues, and diabolically clever denouements.

About this Author

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the US bestsellingMagpie MurdersandThe Word is Murder, and one of the most prolific and successful writers in the English language; he may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novelTrigger Mortisfeatures original material from Ian Fleming. His most recent Sherlock Holmes novel,Moriarty, is a reader favorite; and his bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. As a TV screenwriter, he created bothMidsomer Murdersand the BAFTA-winningFoyle's Waron PBS. Horowitz regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines, and in January 2014 was awarded an OBE.

ISBN: 9781443459112
Format: Trade paperback
Series: A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery
Pages: 384
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-10-18

Reviews

"The most conventional of Horowitz's mysteries to date still reads like a golden-age whodunit on steroids." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[D]eliciously shifty . . . brilliant."  -- Toronto Star

"A Line to Kill is utterly entertaining and a magnificent pleasure." -- Winnipeg Free Press

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