Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 3

A Line to Kill

by Anthony Horowitz

Published
19 August 2021
Pages
392
ISBN-13
9781473572577
Type
novel

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Cover of A Line to Kill

About this book

A Line to Kill didn't arrive until August 19, 2021 -- nearly three years later -- as the third entry, running 392 pages, keeping Horowitz's series playing with the boundary between fiction and reality as Hawthorne's backstory keeps unspooling gradually.

Its place in Hawthorne & Horowitz

A Line to Kill is book 3 in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. It follows The Sentence Is Death. It is followed by The Twist of a Knife. See the full Hawthorne & Horowitz reading order.

Hawthorne & Horowitz is Anthony Horowitz's adult crime series with a metafictional trick at its center: the narrator is "Anthony Horowitz" himself, a novelist reluctantly dragged into real murder investigations by Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, prickly ex-detective he's been hired to write a true-crime book about. Hawthorne solves the cases with classic golden-age deduction; "Horowitz" bumbles along as an unreliable, self-deprecating Watson figure, complaining about his own contracts and screenwriting deadlines…

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