GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

This week’s pick is the fifth book in a series that I have just adored by a favorite author. I also just got approved by Netgalley to read the ARC. I can’t wait to get to this one, and might even bump it up ahead of a few other ARCs, just because I can.

Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

Hawthorne & Horowitz #5

Publication Date: April 16, 2024

Summary from Goodreads:

Richmond, London . Six attractive houses are tucked away in an exclusive and very upmarket gated Riverside Close. Surrounded by flowers and shrubbery, they’re sealed off from the busy main road and the realities of urban life. At weekends, with the gate locked, the residents enjoy the sound of birdsong, the whirr of mowers, the occasional snatch of opera through an open window.

Everyone knows each other. Everyone gets on.

That is, until the Kenworthies arrive. With their four big gas-guzzling cars, their noisy children and their plans to build a swimming pool in their garden, they quickly offend every one of their neighbours.

When Charles Kenworthy is found dead on his porch, the bolt of a crossbow through his chest, Daniel Hawthorne is called in.

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

If you are not familiar with this series, I have to tell you that it is quite unique. The author, Anthony Horowitz is actually a character in the book. It is written sort of in the style of the Sherlock Holmes books, with Anthony writing like Watson. Although, Anthony is very much a reluctant participant in these mysteries, he does a good show of helping Hawthorne solve them. I have enjoyed the other four books and am super excited to get to read this one so soon.

Until next time…