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Anthony Horowitz, author of A Line to Kill

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. Upon arrival, they meet the festival’s other guests --- an eccentric gathering that includes a bestselling children’s author, a French poet, a TV chef turned cookbook author, a blind psychic and a war historian --- along with a group of ornery locals embroiled in an escalating feud over a disruptive power line. When a local grandee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the case. The island is locked down, no one is allowed on or off, and it soon becomes horribly clear that a murderer lurks in their midst. But who?

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Week of October 17, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of October 17th include EMPIRE OF PAIN, Patrick Radden Keefe's grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin; THE ANSWER IS..., longtime "Jeopardy!" host and television icon Alex Trebek's reflection on his life and career through illuminating personal anecdotes and his thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality and philanthropy; Alice Hoffman's conclusion to her Practical Magic series, THE BOOK OF MAGIC, a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters; A LINE TO KILL, Anthony Horowitz's third literary whodunit featuring former Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz; and HONOR by Thrity Umrigar, a riveting and immersive novel that tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.

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