Close to Death
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  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804942963
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99
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Close to Death

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

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3 Dec 2024
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11 Apr 2024
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11 Apr 2024
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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 Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, they all come under suspicion.

Only former Detective Daniel Hawthorne has a chance at solving the case, but he’s stuck on one part of the puzzle:

How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804942963
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

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.

Also by Anthony Horowitz

Marble Hall Murders
The Word Is Murder
Moonflower Murders
A Line to Kill
The Sentence is Death
The Twist of a Knife
With a Mind to Kill
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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!

Starred Booklist

I loved this ... for its depiction of badly behaved (and very nosy) neighbours

iPaper

(CLOSE TO DEATH is one of) the five best murder mystery novels of all time

Lucy Foley
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