A Line to Kill

When ex–detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to a far-from-exclusive literary festival on the tiny island of Alderney, they soon discover that all is not as it should be.

The locals of Alderney are embroiled in a feud over a disruptive power line that’s turning neighbor against neighbor, and the festival’s other guests include an eccentric gathering of authors harboring a number of unpleasant secrets.

So when a local grandee is found dead under the strangest of circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz know they don’t have to look far for suspects. There is no easy escape from the island, and it becomes horribly clear that a cold-blooded murderer lurks in their midst. But who? And there’s about to be a second murder. . . .

A Line to Kill is a triumph—a hugely entertaining riddle of a story full of brilliant misdirection, beautifully set-out clues, and diabolically clever denouements.