A Line to Kill
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3.7
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Anthony Horowitz
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." —BooklistWhen 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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Author
Anthony Horowitz
Pages
384
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2021-10-19
ISBN
0062938177 9780062938176
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"A sharp though convoluted whodunit about murders in the Channel Islands, starring our intrepid alter-ego author-slash-narrator Anthony Horowitz as he and his subject, Detective Hawthorne, try to uncover who killed two unsavory characters. I like the alter-ego author-slash-narrator so I give the characters 4 stars, but the convoluted plot gets 3 stars"
"I enjoyed how he broke the 4th wall, and that even though it is part of the Hawthorne series it can still be a stand alone book. Quick and easy read."
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Ms Jennifer
"The more I read the books in this series, the more I’m starting to not like them. The first 3/4 of each book are great. There’s a lot of great twist and turns. With that being said the endings aren’t good. Hawthorne ends up “solving” the case with very tenuous evidence. A lot of times, he draws conclusions from evidence that could fit almost all of the suspects. Also, a lot of times he draws conclusions from observations that I (the reader) were never told about in the book. He’s lucky that the killer or killers ends up confessing when they are confronted with this tenuous evidence because if they didn’t, then he would never solve a case (at least one that would hold up in court). This is true for each book I have read so far in this series. Maybe “A Twist of the Knife” will be different, but I doubt it. We shall see. "
"Horowitz remains my favorite airplane author. Always excited to pick up his new book and can get through these on a 3-4 hour flight without losing any engagement. "
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Eleanor Masinter
"These books are just so much fun! Though between this one and Everyone on this Train is a Suspect, maybe I don’t need to go to any more literary festivals?? Kidding…but what a fun way to do a pseudo locked room mystery! I continue to enjoy the Hawthorne/Horowitz dynamic, but I’m maybe starting to think I’m too susceptible to first person narrative. I was genuinely irritated when Horowitz was, though I suppose it could be a testament to the writing style!"
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Allie Peduto