Harper Perennial
A Line to Kill
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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.
"Horowitz is a master of misdirection, and his brilliant self-portrayal, wittily self-deprecating, carries the reader through a jolly satire on the publishing world." --Booklist
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.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780062938152
EAN:
9780062938152
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
384
Authors:
Anthony Horowitz
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Published Date: 2022-18-10
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First off, I want to srtess that I think Horowitz is very talented -- or, at least, was in the past. I liked Magpie very much, and loved Foyle's War and Midsomer, which I watched for years, as long as John Nettles was the star. But this Hawthorne and Horowitz stuff is awful. I bought Close to a Kill (or whatever the title was), didn't particularly like it and said so in a review. However, I made the mistake of buying this one just a few days after I bought Close, and before I had gotten too far into Close. Amazon offered me both books for $1.99 plus tax each, and I guess I just couldn't resist. But, let me tell you, this one was worse than Close. It started out interesting, I thought, with stuff about Alderney, and the pace and voice at that point were quite good. However, it disintegrated pretty fast. Couldn't stand the characters and the whole thing seemed very uninspired, or at least it didn't inspire me. OK, enough said. Very, very boring and tedious piece of third-rate writing. This is it for me, with the H&H series. Yuck!
Was a gift and she loved it.
Hawthorne and Horowitz are invited to a book festival on the Channel Island of Alderney they go because Hawthorne thinks it will be fun. Once they arrive they learn that there's a lot of angst among the residents relating to an electric line that will run across the island.Only one man will benefit from the line that will despoil a portion of the island. Following a party for the author of the festival there are two murders. The why is easy to guess but who did the murders is another pack of lies and diversions.
Great book…great author. I am hooked…
A great fast paced read. Love the twists.
