Close to Death
byAnthony Horowitz, Rory Kinnear (Read by)
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.
Sunday TimesEasily the greatest of our crime writers
The Times[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer
Crime Time FM'A clever murder mystery…playful and twisty. Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz
The SunSpectacularly good fun, wickedly clever, with a pinch of the macabre, this is everything you could wish for from one of our top crime writers
New York Journal of BooksTurns the closed-circle mystery inside out
StyleThe master of the mystery
Good HousekeepingThe king of the clever whodunnit
The AfterwordAn excellent entertaining thriller
Kirkus ReviewsGloriously artificial, improbable, and ingenious. Fans of both versions of Horowitz will rejoice
Starred BooklistAn absolutely engrossing tale ... Kudos to anyone who can figure this one out!
About Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.
He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective’s hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.
His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story…
He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective’s hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.
His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story…
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