Close to Death by Anthony HorowitzMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was my least favorite of the series. Horowitz has set up some rules of how this series is laid out and then he breaks them. Read as a cold case that Hawthorne will only reveal to him slowly as he writes it, it is narrated as third person for most of it. The case does catch up to the modern day, and it is only then that it picks up in my opinion. Without the banter of Hawthorne and Horowitz and Horowitz's preoccupation with beating Hawthorne, much of the magic is lost. It's still a passable mystery and the end of the book, when the partnership reunites saves it from a complete disappointment. (If I wasn't expecting one thing, and getting another I might even have enjoyed it quite a bit).
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