A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

A LINE TO KILL by Anthony Horowitz is the third book (see also The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death) in the Daniel Hawthorne series which features Anthony Horowitz himself as a character. This time, the duo are off to a literary festival in the Channel Islands and there’s carping and a bit too much professional jealousy amongst the attendees (a blind psychic, a TV chef, a children’s author, an historian, and a poet). Since Hawthorne and Horowitz have the investigative background, they are tapped to help determine who killed a wealthy, if controversial, local landowner and festival sponsor. Horowitz supplies numerous twists in this entertaining satire of the publishing world. One mystery is solved, but plenty of questions remain, especially about the enigmatic Daniel Hawthorne. In addition to being recognized as a LibraryReads selection, A LINE TO KILL received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly.