A Line to Kill - Rambling Readers

Hardcover

ISBN:: 978-1-5291-2430-9

(1 review)

'I couldn't see the sea from my bedroom but I could hear the waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a tiny island. And I was trapped.'

There has never been a murder on Alderney.

It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand new literary festival. Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer, Anthony Horowitz, travels with him.

Very soon they discover that not all is as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour.

The visiting authors - including a blind medium, a French performance poet and a celebrity chef - seem to be harbouring any number of unpleasant secrets.

When the festival's wealthy sponsor …

'I couldn't see the sea from my bedroom but I could hear the waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a tiny island. And I was trapped.'

There has never been a murder on Alderney.

It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand new literary festival. Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer, Anthony Horowitz, travels with him.

Very soon they discover that not all is as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour.

The visiting authors - including a blind medium, a French performance poet and a celebrity chef - seem to be harbouring any number of unpleasant secrets.

When the festival's wealthy sponsor is found brutally killed, Alderney goes into lockdown and Hawthorne knows that he doesn't have to look too far for suspects.

There's no escape. The killer is still on the island. And there's about to be a second death...

2 editions

Sara G reviewed A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #03)

A decent whodunnit

4 stars

Content warning Review of A Line To Kill by Anthony Horowitz including spoilers

Another good addition to the Hawthorne series. I devoured the first 2 books when I discovered them a few years back, it was a welcome surprise to discover two more books in the series and I hoped they'd be just as entertaining. I wasn't disappointed!

I like Hawthorne as a character, though I don't really understand why he keeps himself such of a secret. It's also interesting to get a window inside the life of being an author, though it's difficult to know which bits are real and which bits are fake.

The story was good though I felt the finale for Derek Abbot was a bit underwhelming, all things considered. I had feared the snuggery had a much more sinister purpose and I'm sort of glad I was wrong, though it might have made more sense.

An enjoyable read, I'll be moving onto book 4 in the series next.