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janetreads 's review for:
A Line to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Not my favorite Horowitz. I remember the earlier books in the series being so wonderfully clever about their meta-ness. (Although I read them a while ago now). This iteration felt less clever (or maybe there’s not too much more that can be done with the set-up) and so it was really just a rather unlikeable detective and a fairly pathetic/self-deprecating narrator trying to solve a crime. Hawthorne’s refusal to share anything with the narrator is just a bit too much — other detective pairs use their Watson as a sounding board or an eager student, because really Watson is the reader too. And the mystery itself? So-so.