Anthony Horowitz in Conversation with Andrea Carter

For the third and final interview in our series, Andrea Carter will interview fellow crime-writer, best-selling author Anthony Horowitz about his writing life, all things crime, and more!
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Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. His teen fiction includes the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which is estimated to have sold 21 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a hugely successful television series produced by Sony and Eleventh Hour Films.
Anthony is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Moriarty. He was commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate to write three continuation novels for James Bond - Trigger Mortis, Forever and Day and With a Mind to Kill.
His series featuring Detective Hawthorne and an unlikely sidekick called Anthony Horowitz has six books so far: The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line to Kill, The Twist of a Knife, Close to Death and A Deadly Episode which was published in April 2026.
His three bestselling crime novels, Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders have all been filmed for the BBC with Lesley Manville in the lead role. Marble Hall Murders is scheduled to air later this year.
Anthony is also responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series including Midsomer Murders and he is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War.
His most recent television series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue was aired on the BBC in the UK in September 2025.
Since 2019, Anthony has been a patron of Home-Start Suffolk, a charity supporting families throughout Suffolk, and he was awarded a CBE in 2022 for his services to literature.

Andrea Carter is the author of seven crime novels. She graduated in law from Trinity College, Dublin. Having practised law for twenty years, both as a solicitor and barrister, she now writes full time. She holds a first-class MFA from UCD. Her short story The Lamb was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards in 2019. The Inishowen Mysteries series is in development for television, and her first standalone thriller There Came a-Tapping was published in March 2025 to critical acclaim.