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  • Published: 19 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473572577
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

A Line to Kill

a locked room mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author




By the global bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, the third novel in his acclaimed Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The Russian mafia, a strange religious order and not one but two murders - stand by for a hugely enjoyable, twisty turny read.

On a small island, everyone's a suspect ...

Private Investigator, Daniel Hawthorne, and Anthony Horowitz have been invited to a literary festival on Alderney to talk about their new book.

They find the island in turmoil over a planned power line that is turning neighbour against neighbour. And the visiting authors seem to be harbouring any number of personal secrets.

When the festival's wealthy sponsor is brutally murdered, Alderney goes into lock-down.

With no one allowed on or off the island, Hawthorne knows he doesn't have to look too far for suspects.

But the killer is still on the island. And there's about to be a second death ...
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS' Sunday Times

'Witty, wry, clever, a fabulous detective story and perfect summer reading' KATE MOSSE

'Funny, intriguing, thrilling and thought-provoking: a marvellous mystery' ADAM HAMDY

'My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz' SHARI LAPENA

  • Published: 19 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473572577
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

Anthony Horowitz

Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; two James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day; three Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death and the forthcoming A Line To Kill, and the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.

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 2014 he was awarded an OBE for his services to literature.

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