"She had been sitting in the kitchen ever since, watching the sun rise over her garden and, beyond it, the ruins of Saxby Castle, a thirteenth-century structure which gave pleasure to the many hundreds of amateur historians who visited it but which cut out the sunlight every afternoon, casting a long shadow over the house" - Magpie Murders (ch 3), Anthony Horowitz
I hope the murder mystery makes a little more sense than the way the sun moves
My middle schooler had a great time listening to this with me during our car rides!
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Alex Rider is not an average 14-year-old at an ordinary West London school. There’s something Alex can’t tell any of his classmates: he has recently been recruited and trained as a special agent by MI6, the British secret service. When two mysterious deaths are linked to an ultra-private school where the rich and powerful send their uncontrollable, rebellious sons, MI6 sends Alex to uncover what is really going on...
Caught up with the most recent novel in the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries, Close to Death. With Horowitz (fictionally) tasked with writing about a previous case by Hawthorne, he realizes there’s so much more mystery to the man, Daniel Hawthorne. #BookSky #AnthonyHorowitz
5 ⭐️
Just finished Close To Death by Anthony Horowitz. This is the fifth book in the Daniel Hawthorne series and I felt that it was not as good as the previous four. However it does expose more about the past of Hawthorne.
Daniel Hawthorne is an ex-police detective who has coerced Anthony Horowitz in to writing books about murders he solves when he is called in by the police. Horowitz himself is a character in the each book.
https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/close-to-death-9781804942963
#BookUnrecommendation: Close to Death by #AnthonyHorowitz
I think this is the 3rd time (of 5 #Books) I've read this series about Hawthorne. I didn't care for it the first time, keep forgetting char. name.
1. Author put himself as a(n annoying) character.
2. Lists other stuff he's done (feels like CV/ad/brag).
3. Describes a past plot (spoiler?).
4. Recommends sub-genre books, then mf SPOILS them.🤬
Main story decent otherwise, but no more Horowitz for me.