Play Book Tag discussion

A Line to Kill - Horowitz
Audio performance by Rory Kinnear
4 stars

Horowitz has done it again. He’s applied his satirical pen to his own profession. The fictional Anthony Horowitz is invited to attend a little known literary festival on Alderney with Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne to promote his upcoming book. That book, The Sentence is Murder, actually precedes this one in the series and features the ex-detective with Horowitz playing an ever present bumbling sidekick to Hawthorne’s investigation.

It was a good mystery with many red herrings. There were almost no likable characters among the suspects. I enjoy the way Horowitz pokes fun at his own profession, although it was overdone in this book. Horowitz is a very accomplished author and unlikely to attend such a small literary festival. Alderney is as unlikely a setting. Not that it matters. It was an interesting setting, just right for a limited set of suspects.