Anthony Horowitz
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Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A brilliantly inventive murder mystery by the author of the New York Times bestselling The Word Is MurderYou shouldn't be here. It's too late. . . .These, heard over the phone, are the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine--a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth ?2,000, to be precise.Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And...
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English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes this new novel with the ex-editor hero Susan Ryeland set to solve another murder mystery. Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen....
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
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Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books, he's ending their collaboration. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open in London's West End. The play is panned by critics -- Sunday Times critic Harriet Throsby is particularly savage, especially about the writing. The next day she is stabbed in the heart by an ornamental dagger-- one belonging to Anthony, and with his fingerprints all over it. When...
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Series
Magpie murders volume 1
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English
Description
A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"--
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....
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Midsomer Murders volume 1
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English
Description
The death of Miss Emily Simpson in the sleepy village of Badger's Drift brings DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Gavin Troy to investigate. Her neighbour had seen her return from a walk in the woods, unnerved and shocked by something she had seen. When her death is confirmed as no accident, Barnaby and Troy start to question the many eccentric and quirky residents and discover a web of sex, blackmail, secrets and lies before another horrific death shatters the...
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Series
Midsomer Murders volume 2
Language
English
Description
When the Midsomer Worthy Writers Circle choose to invite the famous writer Max Jennings to their next meeting, fellow writer and group chairman Gerald Hadleigh is opposed to the decision. After Jennings' visit, Gerald's body is found at his house by his housekeeper the following morning. Barnaby and Troy discover that Hadleigh was somewhat of an enigma, when a witness observes a mysterious woman enter his house the night before his murder. The police...
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Series
Midsomer Murders volume 1
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English
Description
When the wife of a wealthy landowner is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat, DCI Barnaby is enmeshed in a succession of calculating murders.
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Midsomer Murders volume 1
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English
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The inhabitants of a sleepy village are shocked when a local property developer, recently diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, is brutally murdered.
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Midsomer Murders volume 3
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English
Description
When a local thief and womanizer is killed with a pitchfork, the residents of Midsomer Mallow fear for their chances in the Perfect Village Competition.
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Series
Midsomer Murders volume 2
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English
Description
When a woman is killed in local woodland nine years after three identical murders, Barnaby and Troy are led into the murky, clandestine world of Midsomer Worthy.
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Series
New Blood volume 6
Language
English
Description
Our Child is an international charity - but when its chief accountant dies, Rash and Stefan have to fight to protect someone close to them.
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Series
New Blood volume 2
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English
Description
Stefan and Rash still have no idea that they are investigating the same case, but as the murders continue, they find themselves drawn into a lethal conspiracy.
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New Blood volume 7
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English
Description
Stefan is still chasing the mysterious criminal, Daniel Lorca, while Rash investigates Our Child. Their paths bring them together in an explosive finale.
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New Blood volume 5
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English
Description
Once again, Rash and Stefan find their jobs are on the line. Can they discover the reason Adam was killed before time runs out for them?
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New Blood volume 3
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English
Description
With two assassins on their trail and a war between big pharma companies raging, Rash and Stefan are forced to join together to find the truth.
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New Blood volume 4
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English
Description
Rash and Stefan are looking for a flat, but a dead construction worker and a secret connected to an iconic new skyscraper means they must work together once again.
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Series
New Blood volume 1
Language
English
Description
A sinister drugs trial in India has repercussions years later when a teacher is murdered. Trainee detective Rash, and junior SFO investigator Stefan, are separately drawn into the case.