AH is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. A Line To Kill is the latest in a series of books describing how AH himself and fictional detective Daniel Hawthorne get involved (and eventually solve) an equally fictional murder mystery.

Sound a bit like a writer's conceit? It is, but he handles it very well and I manage to forget that aspect of the plotting most of the time. This is a series worth reading, and A Line To Kill doesn't let us down.