Anthony Horowitz, Author . Scholastic $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-439-67995-4
Horowitz (the Alex Rider series) unveils a thoroughly creepy new tale with this first entry in the Gatekeepers series. The novel opens as 14-year-old Matt Freeman reluctantly helps an older friend break into a warehouse. A frequent truant (he has...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-239510-8
At the start of this impressive James Bond pastiche from bestseller Horowitz (Moriarty) set in 1957 soon after the action of Goldfinger, a German rocket scientist working for the U.S. sells secrets about a forthcoming American launch. Meanwhile,...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-237718-0
In this disappointing follow-up to Horowitz’s brilliant first Holmes pastiche, The House of Silk (2011), Sherlock Holmes appears only in passing, in a prologue in which narrator Frederick Chase, a Pinkerton operative, details the plot holes in...
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Anthony Horowitz. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-19699-4
The hype surrounding what’s being billed as the first pastiche ever officially approved by the Conan Doyle estate is amply justified in this authentic, if melancholy, recreation of the beloved Baker Street characters by the creator of the acclaimed...
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Anthony Horowitz, Author Philomel Books $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-24151-2
The fifth entry in the Alex Rider Adventure series by Anthony Horowitz, Scorpia follows 14-year-old Alex to Italy, after he learns that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, and the teen gets swept up in a murderous scheme of his...
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Anthony Horowitz, Author Berkley Publishing Group $2.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-425-08447-2
In this sequel to The Devil's Door-Bell, Martin and Richard fly to Peru to vanquish the Old Ones, demons who threaten to unleash their evil on the world. ""Horowitz packs enough suspense and violence into the story to satisfy the most avid thriller...
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Anthony Horowitz, Author Philomel Books $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-23979-3
Philanthropic pop-star or utter madman? Anthony Horowitz's latest, Eagle Strike: An Alex Rider Adventure finds the teen spy tracking another arch-villain across Europe in an action-packed follow-up to Stormbreaker, Point Blank and Skeleton Key....
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Anthony Horowitz, Author Philomel Books $17.99 (264p) ISBN 978-0-399-23777-5
Alex Rider, ""the world's only teenaged secret agent,"" embarks on a third adventure in Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz. This time out, the British teen goes undercover as a ball boy at Wimbledon in the first stage of an assignment that leads to
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Anthony Horowitz, Author . Philomel $16.99 (162p) ISBN 978-0-399-25062-0
Maybe only a 10-year-old would find the zanily sinister world here plausible, but Horowitz (the Alex Rider adventures) writes about it with such zeal that older readers will get sucked in, too. Rich, spoiled Thomas Arnold David Spencer, or Tad, goes
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Anthony Horowitz, Author . Puffin $6.99 (170p) ISBN 978-0-14-240868-1
With the wickedly fun undertones of Roald Dahl's The Witches
, Horowitz (The Switch,
reviewed below) imagines that stooped, child-hating grannies are out to take over the world. To do it, they need Jordan Warden, aka Joe, a filthy rich 12-year-
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Anthony Horowitz, read by Rory Kinnear. HarperAudio, 9 hrs., $26.99 ISBN 978-0-06-284834-5
Voice actor Kinnear sounds playfully peevish and impatient when portraying the narrator of Horowitz’s hugely entertaining whodunit, adding to the novel’s sense of fun. Daniel Hawthorne, a respected former Metro policeman who has been hired to...
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Anthony Horowitz, read by Simon Prebble. Recorded Books, library edition, unabridged, nine CDs, 9.75 hrs., $97.75 ISBN 978-1-4703-8943-7
Horowitz’s final novel in the popular Alex Rider series relates the story of Rider’s sworn enemy, Yassen Gregorovich. It was Yassen who killed Alex’s uncle Ian Rider and launched the 14-year-old’s career as a super spy—and this installment examines...
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Anthony Horowitz, Author, John Blackford, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-23620-4
Readers will cheer for Alex Rider, the 14-year-old hero of British author Horowitz's spy thriller (the first in a projected series). When his guardian and uncle, Ian, is mysteriously killed, Alex discovers that his uncle was not the bank vice-pre
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Anthony Horowitz, read by Derek Jacobi. Hachette Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10.5 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-61113-689-0
Jacobi, whose readings of many of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories have been impressive, more than does justice to Horowitz’s standout pastiche, easily one of the best ever attempted. The dark and somber plot plunges Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-264522-7
Bestseller Horowitz (The House of Silk) provides a treat for fans of golden age mysteries with this tour de force that both honors and pokes fun at the genre. In the prologue, an unnamed editor sets the tone by describing how reading the manuscript...
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Anthony Horowitz, read by Samantha Bond and Allan Corduner. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-0-06-267764-8
Horowitz’s new novel salutes the whodunit by presenting two sterling examples of it—a golden age classic in the style of Christie and Sayers bookended by a contemporary mystery involving the suspicious death of bestselling author Alan Conway....
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-267678-8
This spectacular series launch from bestseller Horowitz (Magpie Murders), a scrupulously fair whodunit, features a fictionalized version of himself. The author’s doppelgänger—who, like his creator, has written a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, The House...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-287280-7
Bestseller Horowitz boldly creates an origin story for 007 in his entertaining second James Bond pastiche (after 2015’s Trigger Mortis), a prequel to Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale (1953). The arresting opening sentence, “So, 007 is dead,” refers to...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-267683-2
Bestseller Horowitz’s doppelganger, also named Anthony Horowitz, once again plays Dr. Watson to PI Daniel Hawthorne’s Sherlock Holmes in the British author’s superb sequel to 2018’s The Word Is Murder. This time the astute, if irritating, detective...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $28.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-06-295545-6
Bestseller Horowitz’s masterly sequel to 2017’s Magpie Murders finds Susan Ryeland, who misses her previous work as a London book editor and publisher, discontent in her new life running a struggling hotel in Crete. Then she’s visited by Lawrence...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-293816-9
Bestseller Horowitz’s superior third mystery features former detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and a fictionalized Horowitz (after 2019’s The Sentence Is Death)in an effortless blend of humor and fair play. At a literary festival on the English...
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-307841-3
Bestseller Horowitz’s solid third James Bond novel (after 2018’s Forever and a Day) picks up after the final Ian Fleming novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, in which the Russians captured Bond, brainwashed him, and programmed him to kill M, the head
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-062938-18-3
Fair-play whodunits don’t come much funnier than bestseller Horowitz’s brilliant fourth mystery featuring a fictionalized version of himself as the bumbling sidekick to former detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne (after 2021’s A Line to Kill)....
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Anthony Horowitz. Harper, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-330564-9
In the intriguing if uneven fifth installment of Horowitz’s Hawthorne and Horowitz series (after The Twist of a Knife), the author again blends mystery and metafiction to examine a murder in an exclusive London cul-de-sac. After the obnoxious Giles...
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