Close to Death
How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)
$24.50
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2024
Summary
By global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.
The quiet, gated community of Riverview Close offers its inhabitants the perfect life within one of the most desirable areas of London.
That is, until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his gas-guzzling cars, loud parties and outrageous plans for a new swimming pool.
His neighbours all have a reason to hate him.
So when Ke…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804942963 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804942960 |
| Author: | Anthony Horowitz |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Hawthorne |
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(CLOSE TO DEATH is one of) the five best murder mystery novels of all time * Lucy Foley *Easily the greatest of our crime writers * Sunday Times *[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer * The Times *‘A clever murder mystery…playful and twisty. Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz * Crime Time FM *Spectacularly good fun, wickedly clever, with a pinch of the macabre, this is everything you could wish for from one of our top crime writers * The Sun *I had a great time with Close to Death by our best living thriller writer, Anthony Horowitz. Set in a gated Richmond enclave, it combines endless narrative surprises with sharp observation of the professional classes * Michael Billington *Turns the closed-circle mystery inside out * New York Journal of Books *The master of the mystery * Style *The king of the clever whodunnit * Good Housekeeping *An excellent entertaining thriller * The Afterword *
About The Author
Anthony Horowitz
Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders; and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line To Kill, The Twist of a Knife and Close to Death. He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.
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