Audiobooks narrated by Rory Kinnear

The voice of Anthony Horowitz's Hawthorne novels, where Horowitz writes himself in as the narrator — so Kinnear is playing the author. Reads the whole run, which is unusual and makes them worth doing in order.

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1 series · 6 books · 2 recording comparisons

Known on screen for Bond (Tanner), Years and Years, Penny Dreadful · more celebrity narrators

Best known for

• The Word Is Murder
• The Twist of a Knife
• Close to Death
• The Pickwick Papers

Series Rory Kinnear reads in full

Hawthorne

Anthony Horowitz · 6 books · read throughout by Rory Kinnear. Publication order, and it matters more than in most crime series: the running joke is Horowitz slowly working out who Hawthorne actually is, and that is doled out a book at a time.

1. 1The Word Is Murder (2017)
2. 2The Sentence Is Death (2018)
3. 3A Line to Kill (2021)
4. 4The Twist of a Knife (2022)
5. 5Close to Death (2024)
6. 6A Deadly Episode (2026)

Full Hawthorne listening order →

Where Rory Kinnear is one of the choices

Books sold as more than one recording, with Rory Kinnear among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.

• Crooked HouseAgatha Christie · 4 recordings
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · 11 recordings

Authors Rory Kinnear reads

• AHAnthony Horowitz1 series on this site

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