A Line To Kill

 Horowitz has done it once again!! 

There is nothing more entertaining to read than these Hawthorne and Horowitz mysteries. 

Writing himself into the mystery as the biographer of the detective is so clever. Sometimes it is hard to tell if maybe some of it is actually real.. Horowitz follows Hawthorne around taking notes as Hawthorne solves the crime. He is the funny Watson to Hawthorne's Holmes. You the reader are listening to the same clues and descriptions and trying to figure out the killer as they go along. Always a good clever twist...right under your nose.

This time Horowitz finds himself at a literary festival with Hawthorne thinking he will have the upper hand, showing Hawthorne how to meet the literary fans and how to handle himself in an interview.  
But once again Hawthorne seems to get the tables turned.  He is already comfortable with the environment on this English island and he seems to run into people from his past.  

When a murder occurs at a literary party on the island Hawthorne is right there to begin the investigation until the police can get there.  Of course Horowitz is right there beside him with pen and pad in hand to record all the facts.  But Horowitz is reluctant to begin another mystery novel featuring the detective.

In the end multiple, seemingly unsolvable, murders and a cast of suspects pulls them both into the fray and Horowitz is making lists of suspects and trying to figure out who it could be.  Is it the blind author with a physic sense? Is it the French poet ? Or maybe the chef who writes cookbooks?  So many authors with the timing and the motive... and of course there are quite a few distractions that can send you in a variety of directions.

Along with a very well disguised killer and a clever mystery there is also the wonderful funny and entertaining dialog.  Already looking forward to another great mystery novel by Anthony Horowitz.