Anthony Horowitz – författare

From the globally bestselling author of Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz' Crime Time FM'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jonasson-----------The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film.The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings.But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit the set, they find a far from happy family.The director's pretentious, the screenwriter's an eco-warrior, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money.And things are about to get much, much worse.In the middle of shooting, the actor playing Hawthorne is stabbed - which leaves the real Hawthorne with no choice. He has to step in and investigate his own murder.Because the killer may not have got the right man. Was it Hawthorne himself who was meant to be the target?A Deadly Episode is a wild ride through a world that the author knows only too well, and the most personal case Hawthorne has had to deal with so far.-----------Readers cannot get enough of A Deadly Episode . . .'The perfect whodunnit' 5-star reader review'A very entertaining instalment to this fabulous series' 5-star reader review'A pacy and entertaining mystery that I loved from start to finish' 5-star reader review'A roller coaster of red herrings' 5-star reader review'Full of humour, twists and red herrings' 5-star reader review'Exceedingly brilliant' 5-star reader review

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she''s always wanted. But is it? She''s exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she''s beginning to miss London.

And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts. 

One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim—an advertising executive named Frank Parris—and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime. 

The Trehearne’s, daughter, Cecily, read Conway’s mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris’s murder—a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel’s handyman—is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.

Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds, Anthony Horowitz.  

En vacker vårmorgon går den förmögna änkan Diana Cowper in på en begravningsbyrå i London. Hon är där för att arrangera sin egen begravning. Sex timmar senare hittas hon död i sitt hem, strypt med ett gardinsnöre.

Den excentriske privatdetektiven Daniel Hawthorne tar sig an fallet, och söker en författare för att hjälpa honom att dokumentera det mystiska mordet – han vänder sig till Anthony Horowitz. Tillsammans försöker den temperamentsfulle Hawthorne och den medgörlige Horowitz att lösa fallet. Men det står snart klart för författaren att hans partner ruvar på sina egna hemligheter.

”Ordet är mord” är första delen i en serie och en briljant nystöpning av det mest klassiska av alla brottlösande par – Sherlock Holmes och doktor Watson.

Det har gått ett år sedan David Eliot kom till internatskolan Groosham Grange på Dödskalleön. När priset till skolans bästa elev ska delas ut känner han sig säker på att vinna förstapriset, den förhäxade graalen. Den nya eleven Vincent King visar sig dock bli en tuff utmanare. Men vad har Vincent egentligen för sig i det fallfärdiga tornet? Något mystiskt är i görningen och det ska snart visa sig att skolans öde är kopplat till den märkliga graalen

Den brittiske författaren Anthony Horowitz är kanske mest känd för böckerna om Alex Rider. Hans roliga och läskiga ungdomsbok från 1988 om trollkarlsskolan på Dödskalleön har nu blivit en tecknad serie i två delar.

Tim Diamond—the world’s worst private detective—takes on his most dangerous case yet, and it’s going to be up to his brother to keep him out of trouble. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.