Hawthorne & Horowitz · Book 5
Close to Death
- Published
- 16 April 2024
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780063305649
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 432 pages, Close to Death is the longest Hawthorne & Horowitz novel; Horowitz published it April 16, 2024 as the fifth entry, deepening Hawthorne's slowly revealed backstory as the golden-age-style investigations continue.
Its place in Hawthorne & Horowitz
Close to Death is book 5 in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series. It follows The Twist of a Knife. It is followed by A Deadly Episode. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063305649