He wrote the screenplays for six episodes of the popular Midsomer Murders series (which has been renewed for a 23rd season).His new series featuring Detective Hawthorne and a sidekick called Anthony Horowitz has three books so far: The Word Is Murder, The Sentence Is Death and A Line to Kill. The fourth, The Twist of a Knife, will be released on Nov. 15.His mother introduced him to classic films, including Frankenstein and Dracula, and presented him with a human skull for his 13th birthday.
He continued the legacy of the world’s most dashing superspy with the novels James Bond: Trigger Mortis (2015), Forever and a Day (2018) and With a Mind to Kill (2022), commissioned by the estate of Bond creator Ian Fleming.His bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider has sold more than 21 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a TV series for Prime Video.Horowitz is currently working on a 10-part TV mystery series, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue.His other books for children include The Power of Five and eight books in the Diamond Brothers series, with the most recent adventure, Where Seagulls Dare, published in May 2022.The native of Middlesex, England, was commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels: The House of Silk (2011) and Moriarty (2014).
