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Close to Death: How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)

Close to Death: How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)

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Close to Death is a murder mystery novel by Anthony Horowitz, published in April 2024. It follows former Detective Daniel Hawthorne as he investigates a murder in a gated community where all the neighbours have a motive for the crime. The book has received critical acclaim, with many reviewers praising its clever plot and intricate storyline.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 12 September 2024
Publisher: Cornerstone

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. The Lord of television mystery LA Times ‘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?

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.

The Lord of television mystery

LA Times ‘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?

Weight: 302g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804942963

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