These four series are just a taste of Horowitz’s work. He’s written other series including the middle grade Alex Rider books, and he was a writer for WWII drama/ murder mystery television show Foyle’s War. I also just learned Horowitz helped adapt some mysteries for TV show Midsomer Murders, which has been described as the English Murder She Wrote! And more excitingly, it’s now a series. The sequel Moonflower Murders comes out on November 10, 2020. Ryeland is brought back to look into a murder at an English hotel that had happened years ago. A murderer was convicted at the time but the hotel owners’ daughter went missing after leaving a message saying that she thinks the police got it wrong. She told them that Alan Conway’s book based on the murder and hotel had convinced her. The parents ask Ryeland to come in and figure out what happened since she knew Conway’s work. It’s another well written mystery, again with a book within a book. I look forward to seeing more books in this series. One thing was that it took me a little while to realize that the main character was the writer. He mentions the books he had already written—even the kids books and the TV show! I kept checking to make sure the books weren’t nonfiction or based on a true story but as far as I can tell it’s not! So that’s kinda neat little twist on top of a clever series. There’s a second book in the series, Moriarty, as well as a short story. I hope we’ll see more in this series in the upcoming years. For folks who want more murder mysteries, check out this list of great British murder mysteries or this list of writers like Agatha Christie.
