- Published: 3 December 2024
- ISBN: 9781804942963
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $22.99
Close to Death
How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)

















- Published: 3 December 2024
- ISBN: 9781804942963
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $22.99
Easily the greatest of our crime writers
Sunday Times
Easily the greatest of our crime writers
Sunday Times
[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer
The 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
'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
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
Turns the closed-circle mystery inside out
New York Journal of Books
The master of the mystery
Style
The master of the mystery
Style
The king of the clever whodunnit
Good Housekeeping
The king of the clever whodunnit
Good Housekeeping
An excellent entertaining thriller
The Afterword
An excellent entertaining thriller
The Afterword
Gloriously artificial, improbable, and ingenious. Fans of both versions of Horowitz will rejoice
Kirkus Reviews
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
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
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
(CLOSE TO DEATH is one of) the five best murder mystery novels of all time
Lucy Foley