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Close to death /

by Horowitz, Anthony.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Century, 2024Description: 419 pages : illustration (colour), map (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529904239 (hbk.) :; 1529904234 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Hawthorne, Daniel, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- -- Fiction | Crime | Crime | Crime & mystery fiction | Thriller / suspense fiction | Detective and mystery storiesSummary: 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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Book - Adult Hardback Bootle Library Adult Fiction Checked out 28/10/2024 003120608X
Book - Adult Hardback Crosby Library Adult Fiction Checked out 29/10/2024 003120607X
Book - Adult Hardback Maghull Library Adult Fiction Checked out 25/10/2024 003120604X
Book - Adult Hardback Southport Library Adult Fiction Checked out 01/11/2024 003120605X
Book - Adult Hardback Southport Library Adult Fiction In transit from Southport Library to Formby Library since 01/10/2024 003120606X 1
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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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