![]() What I'm trying to do is to give the traditional whodunit a metaphysical twist. But here I am, writing a book in which I have no idea what's going on, following in the footsteps of a character who refuses to tell me anything. The whole point of being an author is that you're in control. ![]() At least, that's my version of events and that's what counts here because, very unusually, I actually appear in the book as his not entirely successful sidekick the Watson to his Holmes. It introduces a detective by the name of Daniel Hawthorne - a rather dark and dangerous man whom I actually met on the set of Injustice. The Word is Murder is hopefully the start of a long-running series. Somewhere along the way, I also created a five-part series for ITV called Injustice which very much influenced the book I'm publishing now. I was the first writer on Midsomer Murders and then went on to create Foyle's War which I worked on for the next sixteen years. ![]() After cutting my teeth on the hugely popular show, Robin of Sherwood, I moved on to work with David Suchet and his brilliant portrayal of Hercule Poirot, writing about nine or ten episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot. One of the joys of Twitter, incidentally, is that it allows readers to contact me directly and these 140-character exchanges are as valuable to me as what the professional critics have to say. An original thriller, Magpie Murders was published last year and got some of the best reviews I've had. This began with two Sherlock Holmes continuation novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty, followed by my entry into the world of James Bond with Trigger Mortis. I have plenty of other children's books out there - I was delighted to discover my Power of Five series (Raven's Gate, Evil Star etc) on sale in a tiny bookshop in Elounda, Crete only a few days ago.īut as I grew older (and my original audience entered their twenties) I felt a need to move into adult writing. There were eleven more books in the series - the latest, Never Say Die, was published in 2017 - and they are now being developed for TV. ![]() The game changer for me was Stormbreaker, the first Alex Rider adventure, published in 2000. Perhaps it helped that I wasn't much good at anything else.Ĭut forward to the present and now I have over forty-five published novels to my name. I knew without any doubt that I would be an author. Every time I write a new book, I have the same sense of urgency that I had then. In fact I wrote my first book when I was ten, stuck in a miserable, north London boarding school where reading and telling stories were my only lifeline. It just shows how quickly times have moved. It's strange to think that when I wrote my first book, there was no Amazon - in fact there was no internet, no computers. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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