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A Line to Kill

Hawthorne, Book 3

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A Line to Kill

By: Anthony Horowitz
Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Featuring an exclusive Q&A between Anthony Horowitz and Adam Hamdy.

I couldn't see the sea from my bedroom, but I could hear the waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a tiny island. And I was trapped.

There has never been a murder on Alderney.

It's a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand-new literary festival. Private investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book. The writer, Anthony Horowitz, travels with him.

Very soon they discover that not all is as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour.

The visiting authors - including a blind medium, a French performance poet and a celebrity chef - seem to be harbouring any number of unpleasant secrets.

When the festival's wealthy sponsor is found brutally killed, Alderney goes into lockdown and Hawthorne knows that he doesn't have to look too far for suspects.

There's no escape. The killer is still on the island. And there's about to be a second death....

©2021 Anthony Horowitz (P)2021 Penguin Audio Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Private Investigators Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Funny

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This latest Anthony Horowitz book is my favourite to date.A murder is committed on the island of Alderney during a book festival and there are plenty of suspects. The characters are so well drawn and the story so believable. I love that the writer is actually in the story - an inspired idea which works so well for me! Hawthorn the morose ex detective is developing nicely,and as always is so clever and observant. Rory Kinnear is the ideal reader and I hope he continues to perform the rest in this series.

Great read

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I really adored this instalment .. densely plotted and some quite disturbing elements to it.. setting it on the island gave it a really claustrophobic feel too

Intense thriller

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Brilliant story with great characters. Rory Kinnear does a great job narrating all of the characters

Amazing characters and story

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Such a clever plot, great characters and a favourite author who is a master of murder mystery’s!

Narration and storyline

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loved the book. the series is additive. characters strong and believable
can't wait for the next one

Great story

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I really enjoyed this third book in the series. It has all the right ingredients of plot and characters crafted into an intriguing murder mystery. It is really well read by Rory Kinnear who brings it all to life with a great performance. Also worth noting is the excellent interview with the author at the end of the book.
Highly recommended ! I shall look forward to the next in the series.

Another very enjoyable Whodunnit !

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Much better than the other instalments in this meta series.
Fictional Horowitz still comes across as wheedling and rather ineffectual, and the detective still seems like a poor man’s Comoran Strike (and his name just doesn’t sink in), but the story is enjoyable and masterfully constructed.
Alderney is a fascinating location, that I knew nothing about, and gives the Midsomer/Bergerac tale a sinister edge.
Rory Kinnear IS the voice of Anthony Horowitz although John Nettles would have been very suitable in this instance.

Sinister Midsomer/Bergerac hybrid

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I really enjoyed this audiobook, with all the red herrons and the relationship between Hawthorn and Tony

Excellent !

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...why has Hawthorne's voice become so rough and growly?! it wasn't like that at the beginning of Book 1, it's gone a bit Ray Winstone.

Apart from that, this book is perfection. So well written and clever and and I love the narrator. I'm so excited for No. 4!

love it all but...

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The plot is as intricate and brilliantly realised as I've come to expect, I really like the author's style, and I'm enjoying the meta-ness of his fictionalised self being the narrating character.

I find Hawthorne intrusively obnoxious, which I think is largely intentional, and I'm completely uninterested in finding out more about him - which is unfortunate in that the interview at the end of the story indicates that unveiling him is going to be a core part of future instalments.

Rory Kinnear is a strong actor and I like his voice for most of the narrative, though his delivery can be a bit disjointed, but his non-first-person voices tend to be grating and most of his female voices are frankly fingernails down a blackboard.

I keep listening to these because the plots are so strong, but good grief do I wish that the protagonist was less horrible and the narration was better.

5* story, 1* protagonist, 3* narration

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