![]() ![]() It should be everything she''s always wanted. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. 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.įeaturing his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. 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. ![]() When a local grandee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the case. 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. ![]() "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. 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. Ever more desperate, he realizes that only one man can help him. Thrown into prison and fearing for both his personal future and his writing career, Anthony is the prime suspect in Throsby’s murder and when a second theatre critic is found to have died in mysterious circumstances, the net closes in. She still carries a grudge from her failure to solve the case described in the second Hawthorne adventure, The Sentence is Death, and blames Anthony. The next day, Throsby is stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger which turns out to belong to Anthony, and has his fingerprints all over it. In particular, Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby gives it a savage review, focusing particularly on the writing. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night. ![]() His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater in London’s West End. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over. “I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation-and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne. ![]()
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