Anthony Horowitz
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A Line to Kill
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: English
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3.93(13445 ratings)
The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz.
When 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, they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation–or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past.
Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon 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?
Both a brilliant satire on the world of books and writers and an immensely enjoyable locked-room mystery, A Line to Kill is a triumph–a riddle of a story full of brilliant misdirection, beautifully set-out clues, and diabolically clever denouements.
... Read moreAlex Rider
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 12, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(88492 ratings)
International bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s short story collection expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider with more thrilling action, espionage, and pulse-pounding heroics. Inspired by Horowitz’s millions of fans worldwide, Secret Weapon expands the world of Alex Rider with more thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics. Follow Alex as he infiltrates a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan, fights to prevent an assassination attempt at a ski resort over Christmas, and much more! The #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider is back with more exciting, edge-of-your-seats adventures! Contains a combination of new and previously published material, together for the first time!
... Read moreArk Angel
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 09, 2008
- Language: English
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4.12(42420 ratings)
Author Anthony Horowitz’s multimillion-selling Alex Rider series reaches thrilling new heights with Ark Angel, which is full of the blistering action and slick gadgets young readers love. When MI6 Agent Alex Rider wakes up in a hospital, he is thrilled to be alive. Left for dead by his dreaded nemesis Scorpia, Alex has survived to fight another day. Almost immediately, he locks horns with a super-rich Russian businessman who is building a luxury hotel in space. “Horowitz is pure class, stylish but action packed . he’s figured out that being James Bond in miniature is way cooler than being a wizard.”-The Mirror
... Read moreCrocodile Tears
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 26, 2010
- Language: English
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4.18(29358 ratings)
Best-selling author and fan favorite Anthony Horowitz has built a huge following with his Alex Rider series. This time, Alex is up against a con man who wants to create the biggest catastrophe he can muster to profit through a disaster-relief charity. If Alex is going to stop a genetically engineered virus from sweeping across the country, he’ll have to brave gunfire, explosions, and dangerous mercenaries-then come face to face with the deadly mastermind.
... Read moreEagle Strike
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 05, 2005
- Language: English
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4.12(47254 ratings)
Alex Rider, the hero of award-winning author Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling adventure series, has been called a teenaged James Bond. In Eagle Strike the 14-year-old secret agent has his hands full with former pop idol Sir Damian Cray, who claims to want to save the world. Only Alex knows the truth-it’s the world that needs saving from Cray.
... Read moreEvil Star
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 9 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 14, 2009
- Language: English
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3.98(14915 ratings)
When Matt closed Raven’s Gate, an ancient portal to the world of evil, he thought the trouble was over. But sinister forces are still hot on Matt’s trail and will stop at nothing to destroy him. Somehow five children from across the globe must join forces, as the threat of the Old Ones still looms near. Now Matt and the second of the five, Pedro-who speaks no English-must find the second gate in the lost city of the Incas before the evil star rises.
... Read moreForever and a Day
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Matthew Goode
- Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 06, 2018
- Language: English
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3.88(4070 ratings)
A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.
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M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. “We have no choice. We’re just going to bring forward this other chap you’ve been preparing. But you didn’t tell me his name.”
“‘It’s Bond, sir,'” the Chief of Staff replied. “James Bond.”
The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time.
One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand.
It’s time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against organized crime.
It’s time for James Bond to earn his license to kill.
... Read moreGuys Read: The Double Eagle Has Landed
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Steve West
- Length: 30 minutes
- Publisher: Walden Pond Press
- Publish date: September 20, 2011
- Language: English
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3.28(120 ratings)
Magpie Murders
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Samantha Bond
- Length: 15 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 06, 2017
- Language: English
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3.95(80830 ratings)
Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS’s MASTERPIECE Mystery!
“A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers.” –Janet Maslin, New York Times
New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book of the Year | Esquire Best Book of the Year
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pund investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.
Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
... Read moreMoonflower Murders
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Lesley Manville
- Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.04(8516 ratings)
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But is it? She’s exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she’s beginning to miss London.
And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married–a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall–fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts.
One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim–an advertising executive named Frank Parris–and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime.
The Trehearne’s, daughter, Cecily, read Conway’s mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris’s murder–a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel’s handyman–is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.
Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds, Anthony Horowitz.
... Read moreMoriarty
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 09, 2014
- Language: English
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3.79(17455 ratings)
The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls.
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of detective Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty–dubbed the Napoleon of crime” by Holmes–in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls.
Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. Moriarty’s death has left an immediate, poisonous vacuum in the criminal underworld, and there is no shortage of candidates to take his place–including one particularly fiendish criminal mastermind.
Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes’s methods of investigation and deduction originally introduced by Conan Doyle in “The Sign of Four”, must forge a path through the darkest corners of England’s capital–from the elegant squares of Mayfair to the shadowy wharfs and alleyways of the London Docks–in pursuit of this sinister figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty’s successor.
A riveting, deeply atmospheric tale of murder and menace from one of the only writers to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle’s estate, Moriarty breathes life into Holmes’s dark and fascinating world.
... Read moreNecropolis
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 29, 2009
- Language: English
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4.13(10401 ratings)
The spellbinding fourth novel in the Gatekeepers series, Necropolis continues the saga of Matt and his fellow Gatekeepers. The sinister corporation known as Nightrise is gathering strength-as are the Old Ones who will let loose their dark powers upon an unsuspecting world. Into the fray, Matt and three of his comrades head to Hong Kong to locate a girl named Scarlet-the final Gatekeeper. Is she the key to stopping the rise of evil?
... Read moreNever Say Die
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 10, 2017
- Language: English
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4.35(4086 ratings)
Alex Rider is back in action! His new mission? Rescue an entire bus filled with children belonging to wealthy families. At stake are not only the lives of each child, but the very future of the terrorist organization known as SCORPIA. Thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics make the pages fly. The world’s greatest teen spy is back in action in a thrilling new mission: destroy once and for all the terrorist organization SCORPIA. Americans may have purchased more than 6 million copies of Alex’s adventures, but now, more than ever, we all need his heroics. Following the events of Scorpia Rising, Alex relocates to San Francisco as he slowly recovers from the tragic death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists working for SCORPIA. With Jack gone, Alex feels lost and alone, but then, out of the blue, he receives a cryptic email-just three words long, but enough to make Alex believe that Jack may be alive. Armed with this shred of hope, Alex boards a flight bound for Egypt and embarks on a dubious quest to track Jack down. Yet SCORPIA knows Alex’s weakness. And the question of whether Jack is alive soon takes a backseat to a chilling new terrorist plot-one that will determine the lives of many. From Egypt to France to Wales, from luxury yachts to abandoned coal mines, Alex traverses a minefield of dangers and cryptic clues as he fights to discover the truth. The #1 New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of James Bond and Jason Bourne, is back with a vengeance!
... Read moreNightrise
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 14, 2009
- Language: English
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4.04(11702 ratings)
Hailed “a master of edge-of-your-seat writing” by Booklist, Anthony Horowitz pens the New York Times best-selling Gatekeepers series, which includes the action- packed novels Raven’s Gate and Evil Star. With Nightrise, he amplifies the suspense as an evil group strives to imprison and control the psychic twins, Scott and Jamie.
... Read moreNightshade
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.47(2345 ratings)
Following the shocking events of Never Say Die, Alex Rider’s world has changed: his
biggest enemy, the evil organization Scorpia, has been destroyed. Alex is hoping
his life can finally go back to normal, that he can go to school and spend time with
his friends–but very quickly everything changes. A new and dangerous criminal
organization–Nightshade–is rising.
When Alex discovers they’ve planned a mysterious attack on London, he will stop
at nothing to take them down. But protecting his home city means facing off a ruthless
new enemy and putting his life at stake, again. And this time, there’s no one to save
him if he makes a mistake.
The #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling Alex Rider series is back
with a vengeance in this edge-of-your-seat adventure.
Oblivion
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 20 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 31, 2013
- Language: English
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4.26(6092 ratings)
Having escaped from Hong Kong, the five gatekeepers – Matt, Pedro, Scott, Jamie and Scarlett – are scattered in a hostile and dangerous world. As they struggle to re-group and plan their next move, the malevolent King of the Old Ones gathers his forces in Oblivion: a desolate landscape where the last survivors of humanity must fight the ultimate battle.
... Read morePoint Blank
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 24, 2013
- Language: English
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4.11(51088 ratings)
Recently recruited and trained as a special agent by MI6, the British secret service, 14-year-old West Londoner Alex Rider is sent to infiltrate an ultra-private school where the rich and powerful send their uncontrollable, rebellious sons. What he discovers in the mountaintop fortress of the campus are enough armed guards to repel an invasion-and new classmates who have become eerie copies of each other in their compliant attitudes and actions. This fast-paced yarn delivers technological wizardry and James Bond-like action.
... Read moreRaven’s Gate
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 11, 2008
- Language: English
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3.9(22498 ratings)
As punishment for a crime he didn’t really commit, Matt was given a choice: go to jail or go live with an old woman named Mrs. Deverill in a remote town called Lesser Malling. He should have chosen jail. A strange and sinister plan is coming together made in Lesser Malling, with Matt at the center of it all. People who try to help him disappear . . . or die. It all ties to an evil place named Raven’s Gate – a place whose destiny is horrifyingly intertwined with Matt’s own.
... Read moreRussian Roulette
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.34(7816 ratings)
The final book in the #1 bestselling Alex Rider series! Alex Rider’s life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger. When Ian Rider died at the hands of the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, Alex, ready or not, was thrust into the world of international espionage– the world’s only teenage spy. Alex vowed revenge against Yassen and the two have battled ever since. Yet, years ago, it was none other than Alex’s own father who trained and mentored Yassen, turning him into the killer he would eventually become. What makes us choose evil? Why did one boy choose to kill while another chose to risk his life to save others? In some ways, Alex Rider and Yassen Gregorovich are mirror images of each other. Yet the paths they traveled turned them into mortal enemies. This is Yassen’s story– A journey down a darkened path. International #1 bestseller Anthony Horowitz delivers a blockbuster thrill ride in this, his final Alex Rider novel. From the #1 internationally bestselling author of STORMBREAKER, ARK ANGEL, CROCODILE TEARS, SCORPIA RISING, and the rest of the acclaimed Alex Rider novels comes the spy thriller readers have been waiting for.
... Read moreScorpia
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 13, 2005
- Language: English
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4.18(53586 ratings)
Best-selling author Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider adventure novels are a worldwide sensation. In Scorpia Alex must confront the legacy of the father he never knew. It turns out his father may have worked for Scorpia, a deadly terrorist organization. Now that Scorpia wants Alex on their team, the teenaged hero must face the hardest decision of his life.
... Read moreScorpia Rising
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 29, 2011
- Language: English
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4.29(30083 ratings)
A solid choice for reluctant readers, Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider series is “chock-full of excitement and suspense from the first page to the last” (School Library Journal). In Scorpia Rising, the ninth installment of the thrilling series, the dangerous terrorist organization known as Scorpia is wreaking havoc in the Middle East. Fourteen-year-old MI6 operative Alex has fought them before, but this time, he’s out to shut them down for good.
... Read moreSkeleton Key
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 24, 2013
- Language: English
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4.07(49786 ratings)
Alex Rider of Point Blank is back in another hair raising adventure. Although the 14-year-old has escaped great dangers and has twice saved the world, he now faces his most perilous foe. A Russian man with a huge grudge against the free world has a nuclear weapon and is threatening to use it. It’s up to Alex to stop him.
... Read moreSnakehead
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Anthony Horowitz
- Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 03, 2008
- Language: English
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4.15(42599 ratings)
Best-selling British author Anthony Horowitz returns with an adventure featuring teenaged hero Alex Rider. After a daring mission in space, Alex returns to Earth, crash landing in Australia. There, the Australian Secret Service promptly recruits him on a special case. This time he’ll have to infiltrate a deadly Asian drug gang known as the Snakeheads-and once again face his arch enemy, Scorpia.
... Read moreStormbreaker
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle’s car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for Britain’s top-secret intelligence agency. Enlisted to find his uncle’s killers and complete Ian’s final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with no way out. The original novel that started the worldwide phenomenon is now a major motion picture!
... Read moreThe House of Silk
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 11, 2018
- Language: English
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3.99(38521 ratings)
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.
THE HOUSE OF SILK bring Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in audio….until now.
The House of Silk
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4(52470 ratings)
Once again, The Game’s Afoot…
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.
Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now.
The Sentence is Death
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 28, 2019
- Language: English
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3.97(22759 ratings)
Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz’s brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.
“You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . “
These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine–a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth PS3,000, to be precise.
Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?
Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who’s really getting rather good at this murder investigation business.
But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed–even at the risk of death . . .
... Read moreThe Twist of a Knife
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(5815 ratings)
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation–and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne.
“I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over.
The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind.
His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater in London’s West End. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night.
The play is panned by the critics. In particular, Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby gives it a savage review, focusing particularly on the writing. The next day, Throsby is stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger which turns out to belong to Anthony, and has his fingerprints all over it.
Anthony is arrested by an old enemy . . . Detective Inspector Cara Grunshaw. She still carries a grudge from her failure to solve the case described in the second Hawthorne adventure, The Sentence is Death, and blames Anthony. Now she’s out for revenge.
Thrown into prison and fearing for both his personal future and his writing career, Anthony is the prime suspect in Throsby’s murder and when a second theatre critic is found to have died in mysterious circumstances, the net closes in. Ever more desperate, he realizes that only one man can help him.
But will Hawthorne take the call?
... Read moreThe Word is Murder
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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3.93(41824 ratings)
“One of the most entertaining mysteries of the year. It’s also one of the most stimulating, as it ponders such questions as: Which is of greater interest to the reader, the crime or the detective? And: Is the pencil truly mightier than the butcher knife?” — Wall Street Journal
New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.
A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11 a.m. on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home.
Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz–a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories–suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery.
But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes that he’s at the center of a story he can’t control, and his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own.
... Read moreTrigger Mortis
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: David Oyelowo
- Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 08, 2015
- Language: English
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3.77(4139 ratings)
Incorporating original, never-before-published material from 007 creator Ian Fleming, New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz returns literary legend James Bond to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating and dashing thriller.
The world’s most famous spy, James Bond, has just returned victorious from his showdown with Auric Goldfinger in Fort Knox. By his side is the glamorous and streetwise Pussy Galore, who played no small part in his success. As they settle down in London, the odds of Galore taming the debonair bachelor seem slim–but she herself is a creature not so easily caught.
Meanwhile, the struggle for superiority between the Soviet Union and the West is escalating. In an attempt to demonstrate Soviet strength, SMERSH plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix in the hot zone of West Germany. At the Nurburgring Racing Circuit, Bond must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse to stop them, but when he observes a secretive meeting between SMERSH’s driver and a notorious Korean millionaire, it becomes clear that this is just the infamous organization’s opening move.
An orphan of the Korean War, he has a personal reason for wanting to bring America to its knees. He’s helping SMERSH decisively end the white-hot space race–but how? With the help of an American female agent, Bond uncovers a plan that leads first to Florida and then to New York City, where a heart-stopping face-off will determine the fate of the West.
This thriller has all the hallmarks of an original Ian Fleming adventure and features welcome familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny. Horowitz delivers a smooth and seductive narrative of fast cars and beautiful women, ruthless villains and breathtaking plot that will leave readers hanging until the very end.
... Read moreWith a Mind to Kill
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator: Rory Kinnear
- Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 24, 2022
- Language: English
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3.88(1444 ratings)
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day.
It is M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder–James Bond.
Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den–but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.
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