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mcmbennett 's review for:
A Line to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
Mystery readers should rejoice whenever a new book by Anthony Horowitz appears. He has developed a formidable resume of mystery book and screenwriting credits. In A Line to Kill, Daniel Hawthorne returns with his Dr. Watson style bumbling sidekick, Anthony Horowitz playing himself, in their third outing. Although I am not sure that it clears the high bar set by the first two Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder and the Sentence is Death, it is an outstanding entry in the series.
Hawthorne and Horowitz are on the island of Aldernay at a literary festival to promote The Word is Murder. Aside from allowing Horowitz to put in a tongue-in-cheek plug for his earlier work, he uses the context to take jabs at the literary establishment and its hangers-on. Horowitz is obviously having great fun and he carries the reader along.
As a mystery, Horowitz pays homage to Sherlock Holmes, as well as the “closed circle of suspects” characteristic of the Golden Age of mystery in the lineage of Agatha Christie to P.D. James. He also provides an element of the locked room mystery in the vein of John Dickson Carr. While Horowitz clearly owes a debt to these antecedents, this is not a pastiche; he continues to provide fresh, entertaining contributions to the mystery field. Check it out.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a review copy of this work.
Hawthorne and Horowitz are on the island of Aldernay at a literary festival to promote The Word is Murder. Aside from allowing Horowitz to put in a tongue-in-cheek plug for his earlier work, he uses the context to take jabs at the literary establishment and its hangers-on. Horowitz is obviously having great fun and he carries the reader along.
As a mystery, Horowitz pays homage to Sherlock Holmes, as well as the “closed circle of suspects” characteristic of the Golden Age of mystery in the lineage of Agatha Christie to P.D. James. He also provides an element of the locked room mystery in the vein of John Dickson Carr. While Horowitz clearly owes a debt to these antecedents, this is not a pastiche; he continues to provide fresh, entertaining contributions to the mystery field. Check it out.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a review copy of this work.