{"id":6160,"date":"2025-01-08T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/august-update-and-childrens-murder-mysteries-in-the-sunday-times\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:00:55","slug":"august-update-and-childrens-murder-mysteries-in-the-sunday-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"August update – and children’s murder mysteries in the Sunday Times!"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hello Detectives! I hope your summers are going well, wherever you are and whatever you\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been pretty quiet because there\u2019s a lot going on behind the scenes \u2013 I sent The Most Unladylike Puzzle Book<\/em> off to print at the end of last month (it\u2019s coming out in September! Pre-order it now<\/a>! It\u2019s great!), and now I\u2019m hard at work on Ministry of Unladylike Activity<\/em> 3. This won\u2019t be publishing until September 2025, but I want to get the first draft handed in before my autumn tour begins at the end of September (more news on that soon \u2013 we\u2019ve finalised all of the tour stops, and we\u2019re going to be announcing the whole tour in a few weeks). <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m head down on writing \u2013 I\u2019m aiming to write 2,000 words a day each writing day to hit my deadline. Which is a lot! So that\u2019s why you\u2019re seeing a bit less of me at the moment. You can follow along on Instagram<\/a>, though \u2013 and I\u2019ll keep you updated here as well.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t signed up to the Robin Stevens reading challenge<\/a> yet, you still can \u2013 you need to be in the UK to be entered in the prize draw, but no matter where in the world you are, you can still have fun reading my books!<\/p>\n

I do have one bit of nice news about my books \u2013 both Murder Most Unladylike<\/em> and the Super Sunny Murder Club<\/em> got mentioned in Nicolette Jones\u2019s excellent round-up<\/a> of new children\u2019s crime fiction in the Sunday Times<\/em>. It\u2019s paywalled, but here\u2019s the important extract:<\/p>\n

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This year marks ten years of Robin Stevens\u2019s bestselling Murder Most Unladylike books: ten novels plus half a dozen spin-offs since a science mistress was first found dead in the gym. The series features the heroines Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, who solve a surprising number of murders at their boarding school (Deepdean School for Girls, based on Stevens\u2019s own experience of Cheltenham Ladies\u2019 College) as well as
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Stevens set her stories in that murderous Golden Age, the 1930s, with a fine sense of the period despite a more modern outlook on subjects such as sexual identity. Her decade of crime for kids has been responsible for a rash of copycat killings throughout the children\u2019s books industry, and younger readers have found a thirst for homicide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Out this summer is an anthology of stories, The Super Sunny Murder Club (HarperCollins \u00a38.99, 8-12), co-edited by Stevens with Serena Patel, the author of the amiable Anisha: Accidental Detective series. It demonstrates the range of writers who have taken up the genre, with 13 diverse authors \u2014 from Abiola Bello to Dominique Valente \u2014 reunited after a Christmassy anthology, The Very Merry Murder Club, which was published in 2021. Not every story involves a murder but this is a compelling gateway to crime fiction. It is a good introduction to such talents as Sharna Jackson (High-Rise Mystery), Patrice Lawrence (The Elemental Detectives) and Roopa Farooki (The Cure for a Crime).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m so proud of this mention \u2013 what a decade it\u2019s been for children\u2019s crime!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n