A collection of sizzling summer-themed crime and mystery stories by thirteen of the most popular and exciting children's book authors! Co-edited by Serena Patel, the award-winning author of the Anisha: Accidental Detective series and by Robin Stevens, author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series. This gorgeous summery collection brings back together thirteen bestselling, award-winning and exciting authors: Abiola Bello, Annabelle Sami, Benjamin Dean, E.L. Norry, Elle McNicoll, Dominique Valente, Maisie Chan, Nizrana Farook, Patrice Lawrence, Robin Stevens, Roopa Farooki, Serena Patel and Sharna Jackson. With stunning illustrations by Harry Woodgate. Grab your sunnies and your magnifying glass, and join the Murder Club for more sensational short stories as they lead you on a journey of foul play and murderously magnificent mysteries! Including sun-thieves, fantastical creatures of the deep, airport mayhem, weddings gone wrong, tropical resort travesties, and a very sticky situation at a berry picking farm. This is the prefectly entertaining collection to pack in every young reader's summer holiday bag. Serena Patel is the winner of the This Week Junior's Young Fiction Book of the Year award.
Her debut children's series Anisha Accidental Detective won the fiction category of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards, being shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Blue Peter Prize 2021 and selected for The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge. Serena lives in Walsall with her family. Robin Stevens is the award winning and bestselling author of the Murder Most Unladylike mystery series. She was born in California and has been making up stories all her life. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). Robin lives in Oxford. Gold title * From the authors of The Very Merry Murder Club, which was Waterstones's BOTM November 22 and has sold 45,000 copies! * A collection of 13 middle grade summer-themed mystery stories from 13 of the most well-known award-winning and bestselling children's authors.
* Co-edited by Robin Stevens, author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike mystery series, and Serena Patel, the award-winning author of the Anisha: Accidental Detective series. * Robin Stevens' mystery books have sold over 1 million copies through the TCM and Serena Patel is the winner of the inaugural The Week Junior Young Ficition Book of the Year award, the Sainsburys Book Award and has been shortlisted for a Nibbie. * A diverse range of authors, including contributors from underrepresented ethnic, LGBTQ+ and disabled communities, writing equally diverse characters and stories, showing that anyone can be a hero of the mystery and crime genre, no matter their background. Competition: the; murder most unladylike; Murdle; Cluedle; once upon a crime;clockwork sparrow;mystery and mayhem;growing up for girls;high rise mystery;death sets sail. by;robin stevens;hartigan browne; G.T. Karber;katherine woodfine;serena patel;sharna jackson;elle mcnicoll;agatha christie;emily mcdonagh.