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  • Published: 11 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804948071
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
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Close to Death

How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)





By global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.

By global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.

  • Published: 11 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804948071
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
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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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Praise for Close to Death

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

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

Gloriously artificial, improbable, and ingenious. Fans of both versions of Horowitz will rejoice

Kirkus Reviews

An absolutely engrossing tale ... Kudos to anyone who can figure this one out!

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