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A Line to Kill
- Hawthorne, Book 3
- Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
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....
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- Kath Potter
- 11-09-21
Great read
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.
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- G
- 08-12-21
Another very enjoyable Whodunnit !
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.
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- Sararara
- 10-09-21
Sinister Midsomer/Bergerac hybrid
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.
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- J Whitfield
- 31-08-21
Excellent !
I really enjoyed this audiobook, with all the red herrons and the relationship between Hawthorn and Tony
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- B
- 01-03-22
love it all but...
...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!
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- Sapphire Grey
- 27-09-22
5* story, 1* protagonist, 3* narration
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-11-22
Excellent
Thoroughly enjoyable. Very well read. Follows on easily from the previous book and am excited for the series to be continued!
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- ESTELLE TARRADE
- 07-01-23
Another great story
I love this series so I am probably a bit biaised.
Only negative comment: it’s too short! I have to refrain myself to listen to the next chapter otherwise i would listen to it in one day!
Great plot, as always!
Not sure where Anthony Horowitz finds all these ideas but it works!! And very insightful interview of the author in the end. Thanks!
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- Revd Claire
- 27-01-23
Excellent - something that grows on you
And I loved the chat with the author at the end. Rory Kinnear is superb too.
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- promigeo
- 06-06-23
Great storyline.
Absolutely loved it. Great plot and brilliant narration. Bring on the next book. Can't wait.
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