Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty ; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis , Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill ; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders , Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders ; and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death , A Line To Kill , The Twist of a Knife and Close to Death . He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War . In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.