Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz is a British author and screenwriter known for an unusually wide range spanning children's spy fiction, literary crime pastiche, and prestige television. He is best known to younger readers for the Alex Rider series, following a teenage boy blackmailed into working as a spy for British intelligence, which has sold tens of millions of copies since Stormbreaker launched the series in 2000 and was adapted into a 2006 feature film and later an Amazon Prime television series. For adult readers, Horowitz has become one of the most prominent living authors of classic-style detective fiction, writing officially authorized new Sherlock Holmes novels for the Conan Doyle Estate, continuing James Bond in novels including Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day, and creating the acclaimed Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders novels-within-novels, plus the metafictional Hawthorne series in which a character named Anthony Horowitz appears as the narrator solving crimes alongside a former police detective. His screenwriting credits include creating the long-running British television series Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders, giving him a rare double career as both novelist and television creator across multiple genres. New readers can start with Stormbreaker for the Alex Rider series, or Magpie Murders for his acclaimed adult crime fiction, which was adapted into a television series for PBS and BritBox. Horowitz remains extremely prolific and continues to publish across several concurrent series.