Anthony Horowitz is a prolific British author. One of his first successful works was the Diamond Brothers series, a young adult mystery series that started with The Falcon’s Malteser in 1986. He also writes stand-alone children’s novels such as The Sinister Secret of Frederick K. Bower (1979) and The Devil and His Boy (1998). Horowitz’s most successful series is Alex Rider, which started with Stormbreaker and has been followed by 12 sequels so far. He published an adult mystery, Magpie Murders, in 2016. Horowitz also writes novels featuring Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective Sherlock Holmes. His first Holmes novel, The House of Silk, was published in 2011, followed by Moriarty in 2014. In 2014, Horowitz was invited by Ian Fleming’s estate to write James Bond novels. Horowitz’s James Bond novels are Trigger Mortis (2015), Forever and a Day (2018), and With a Mind to Kill (2022).

Horowitz also writes screenplays. In the 1990s, he wrote the scripts for many episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot and most of the early episodes of Midsomer Murders. He wrote the screenplay for the 2003 horror film The Gathering, starring Christina Ricci, and created two crime-related television series, Foyle’s War and Collision. He also adapted several of his novels for the screen: Just Ask for Diamond (1987), a film adaptation of The Falcon’s Malteser; Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006), a film adaptation of Stormbreaker; and a television adaptation of Magpie Murders in 2022.