A line to kill : a novel

In his third Hawthorne & Horowitz outing, Anthony Horowitz sends his fictional doppelganger, along with former Detective Inspector, now Private Investigator, Daniel Hawthorne to a small literary festival. The novel is populated with the required group of interesting potential suspects and, by setting the festival on an island, also plays with the classic “locked room” mystery. Horowitz, the real one and not his fictional counterpart, has created a riveting combination of golden-age whodunit and contemporary concerns, sensibilities and motivations. The result is a page turner that will leave readers hoping that the wait for the next book in the series will not be long.