Anthony Horowitz

Anthony John Horowitz, (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense.

His works for children and young adult readers include the ''Alex Rider'' series, ''The Power of Five'' series (known in the U.S. as ''The Gatekeepers''), and ''The Diamond Brothers'' series.

His works for adults include the play ''Mindgame'' (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, ''The House of Silk'' (2011) and ''Moriarty'' (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Atticus Pünd, ''Magpie Murders'' (2016) and ''Moonflower Murders'' (2020); and four novels featuring a fictionalised-version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne, ''The Word Is Murder'' (2017), ''The Sentence Is Death'' (2018), ''A Line to Kill'' (2021), ''The Twist of a Knife'' (2022) and the upcoming ''Close to Death'' (2024).

The Estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming also chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilising unpublished material by Fleming, starting with ''Trigger Mortis'' in 2015, followed by ''Forever and a Day'' in 2018, and a third and final novel ''With a Mind to Kill'' in May 2022.

He has also written for television, contributing scripts to ITV's ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' and ''Midsomer Murders''. He was the creator and writer of the ITV series ''Foyle's War'', ''Collision'' and ''Injustice'' and the BBC series ''New Blood''. Provided by Wikipedia