How do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.

‘Easily the greatest of our crime writers’ Sunday Times
‘[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer’ The Times
‘Anthony Horowitz is an absolutely exceptional writer’ Daniel Mays
‘Incredible plotting, richly layered and wonderfully intricate. I inhaled it' Liz Nugent
'Another delightful outing with Hawthorne and Horowitz. Each one is more inventive than the last' Shari Lapena
'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure’ Ragnar Jónasson
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Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community – seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life.

At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden.

His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms.

When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death.

The police are baffled. Reluctantly, they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle.

How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?

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More love for Close to Death . . .

'The Lord of television mystery' LA Times

'A clever murder mystery…playful and twisty. Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz’ Crime Time FM

‘Spectacularly good fun, wickedly clever, with a pinch of the macabre, this is everything you could wish for from one of our top crime writers.’ The Sun

'Just when you thought Horowitz couldn’t further stretch his boundary-bending Daniel Hawthorne detective series, he concocts yet another way to involve readers in his story' The Washington Post

'The mystery is inventive, elegant and smart' The Telegraph

‘Sheer genius … A joy from start to finish’ Independent

‘Whodunnit heaven’ Financial Times

'An absolutely engrossing tale ... Kudos to anyone who can figure this one out!’ Starred Booklist

‘An exceedingly entertaining and inventive mixture of humour and suspense.’ Wall Street Journal

'Gloriously artificial, improbable, and ingenious. Fans of both versions of Horowitz will rejoice.’ Kirkus Reviews

'Turns the closed-circle mystery inside out’ New York Journal of Books

'The master of the mystery' Style

'The king of the clever whodunnit' Good Housekeeping

'A delirious concoction that transplants a Christie-style mystery into the present' Crime Time

‘An excellent entertaining thriller’ The Afterword


Sunday Times bestseller, April 2024

One of the Wall Street Journal’s best mysteries of 2024

(CLOSE TO DEATH is one of) the five best murder mystery novels of all time * Lucy Foley *
Easily the greatest of our crime writers * Sunday Times *
[Horowitz is] a master puppeteer * The Times *
'A clever murder mystery…playful and twisty. Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz * Crime Time FM *
Spectacularly good fun, wickedly clever, with a pinch of the macabre, this is everything you could wish for from one of our top crime writers * The Sun *
I had a great time with Close to Death by our best living thriller writer, Anthony Horowitz. Set in a gated Richmond enclave, it combines endless narrative surprises with sharp observation of the professional classes * Michael Billington *
Turns the closed-circle mystery inside out * New York Journal of Books *
The master of the mystery * Style *
The king of the clever whodunnit * Good Housekeeping *
An excellent entertaining thriller * The Afterword *

Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders; and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line To Kill, The Twist of a Knife and Close to Death. He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.