Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

 What an absolutely brilliant idea for a book. I absolutely loved it. Original, quirky, and I wasn’t quite sure if it was  real. Such an incredible idea.Anthony has to write another book about Detective Hawthorne, but there isn’t a suitable case currently, so Detective Hawthorne decides to drip feed Anthony a previous case he has solved, which took place years ago in a private Close in London.

Riverside Close is picture perfect  - a closed community of friends who all get on well and live an idyllic lifestyle – that is until one family move out, and the family who moved in are a complete nightmare. The trouble is, when the father, Charles Kentworthy dies literally the whole Close could be responsible as every one had reason to hate him. Added to that the gardener, the nanny, there are more suspects than you can shake a stick at. Charles does by crossbow, and a few days later another of the neighbours ends up dead in his car – with an apparent suicide note on his lap. Seemingly an open and shut case – but is all as it seems?

Exciting, puzzling, brilliantly written, believable characters, twists and turns,  What’s not to love? Putting himself writing the story, into the story – sheer genius -as is the idea of the author ‘not knowing who the murderer is’ until the end of the book. Brilliant.

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