* AVAILABLE ONLY WHILE STOCKS LAST - THE SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION: features a gold foiled
design underneath the dust jacket and is exclusive to the first print run in the UK only *How
do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony
Horowitz a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. 'Easily
the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times '[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer' The Times
'Incredible plotting richly layered and wonderfully intricate. I inhaled it' Liz Nugent '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 'Another
delightful outing with Hawthorne and Horowitz. Each one is more inventive than the last. Keep
them coming!' Shari Lapena 'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure. Close to Death is his best
book yet a perfect combination of Agatha Christie and P.D. James' Ragnar Jónasson
_____________ Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And
Riverview Close - a quiet gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life.
At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children his four
gas-guzzling cars his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His
neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms. When Kenworthy is shot dead
with a crossbow bolt through his neck all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens
the door to lies deception and further death. The police are baffled. Reluctantly they call
in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle.
How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?_____________Readers cannot get
enough of Close to Death . . .***** 'All said and done this book was yet another hole in one
thanks to the virtuoso-like skill of Mr. Horowitz himself.' ***** 'Wow this has got to be my
favourite detective series ever! It's Agatha Christie on steroids!'***** 'I had so much fun
reading this book.' ***** 'Horowitz switches up the format keeping this series fresh and
delivers yet another outstanding tale. I loved it.' ***** 'Honestly the best crime read in a
long time.'_____________More love for Close to Death . . . 'The mystery is inventive elegant
and smart' The Telegraph 'Sheer genius ... A joy from start to finish' Independent 'Whodunnit
heaven' Financial Times'An absolutely engrossing tale ... Kudos to anyone who can figure this
one out!' Starred Booklist 'An exceedingly entertaining and inventive mixture of humour and
suspense.' Wall Street Journal 'Gloriously artificial improbable and ingenious. Fans of both
versions of Horowitz will rejoice.' Kirkus Reviews 'Turns the closed-circle mystery inside out'
New York Journal of Books 'The master of the mystery' Style 'The king of the clever whodunnit'
Good Housekeeping 'A delirious concoction that transplants a Christie-style mystery into the
present' Crime Time 'An excellent entertaining thriller' The Afterword Sunday Times bestseller
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