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Announcement: Cream Buns and Crime is getting its own audio edition!

We’ve got a treat for you this Christmas! Cream Buns and Crime, my Murder Most Unladylike series companion, is finally coming out in audiobook on Boxing Day, the 26th December 2019!

This is something that people have been requesting for a long time – but of course, it’s not as simple to record as my full-length Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries because Cream Buns and Crime is a mixture of short stories, essays, quizzes and recipes.… Read more

Top Marks for Murder is Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year 2019!

My first full-time job in books was as a Blackwell’s Broad Street Oxford bookseller in 2010-11. I remember how overwhelming it felt to realise that I was actually being paid to talk about (and unpack, and shelve, and sell) books all day long. It’s been almost ten years since I worked there, but I still miss it sometimes, and I still feel like part of the Blackwell’s family.… Read more

Murder Most Unladylike is one of the 10 Best Children’s Books of the Decade!

CulturedVultures.com has created a list of its 10 favourite children’s books of the 2010s – and Murder Most Unladylike made the cut! Alice Thomas says:

Stevens takes all the best bits of Blyton and gives it a hearty dose of sass, humour and murder for good measure. It’s an excellent first book that leaves you craving more adventures from Daisy and Hazel, the founding members of the Wells and Wong Detective Society …

I’m so pleased to see my first book on this list – it’s up there with some of my own favourite children’s authors and books, so this is a real honour!… Read more

November and December Top Marks for Murder events

My last few 2019 events are up now! Here’s where I’ll be over the next few months …

Saturday 23rd November, 10am, Waterstones Yarm: I’ll be visiting Waterstones Yarm for the book club at 10am, followed by a signing at 11am. At the book club I’ll be talking about all of my books and creating a mystery with book club members, and at the signing I’ll be happy to sign both new copies and your old favourites.… Read more

Announcement – I’m writing MMU9, the last novel in the Murder Most Unladylike series

I have some news to share with you today that’s both very exciting and very sad.

I’ve been working away on a first draft of a story for the last few months – and as a lot of you have guessed, that story will be Murder Most Unladylike Book 9! As I teased at the end of Top Marks for Murder, I’m sending Daisy and Hazel to Egypt to visit Amina – and to go on a Nile river cruise.… Read more

Daisy and Hazel were on BBC One’s Head Hunters!

There was a very familiar question on Thursday’s episode of Head Hunters. Can you guess the answer? I think you might find it pretty easy …

I’m so incredibly proud that my detectives are well-known enough to be a game show question. Wow! You can watch the whole episode on BBCiPlayer here, if you have acccess to it in your country – this section is towards the end of the show.… Read more

The second part of my Top Marks October Tour: London, Belfast and Dublin!

I’ve been travelling again, trying to meet as many of you as possible and talk about my books!

Last week I spoke at a panel event in London’s Waterstones Piccadilly called ‘Returning to Other Worlds’, about authors continuing well-known stories (to find out more about the other authors and books on the panel, I discussed them all in my October YouTube video!), I visited three schools around London, and then I travelled to Belfast and Dublin to hold public signings at Eason’s, an Irish bookstore.… Read more

Competition alert for schools and students: write your very own mystery blurb!

My publisher Puffin Books have a very exciting competition for anyone who goes to school in the UK or Ireland! They’re challenging schools to get their KS2 & 3 pupils (anyone 8-15) to write a blurb of less than 300 words for a detective story – and the best will win £100 of books plus a signed set of Murder Most Unladylike for their school!… Read more

October Book Recommendations 2019

This month’s video is all about collaborations! I’ve chosen books by some of the amazing authors I’ve had the privilege to share a stage with lately. I think they’re all great, and so are their books!

https://youtu.be/1Axh26YUmHU

My choices for October are…

Beyond Platform 13 by Sibeal Pounder and Eva Ibbotson (the sequel to The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson) (Both 8+)The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay (8+)Shadows of Winterspell by Amy Wilson (8+)High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson (8+)

I’ll be back soon with more recommendations – and a very special announcement.… Read more

Top Marks for Murder’s schools tour was an absolutely top week!

I always love going on tour for my books, but I think my Top Marks for Murder tour of schools and festivals at the beginning of October was one of my most wonderful author weeks ever.

Going into schools and talking to kids about my books is (strangely, because I think of myself as a fairly shy and awkward person) one of my favourite things to do these days.… Read more