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Happy US Book Birthday, Mistletoe and Murder!

I’m delighted to say that Mistletoe and Murder, the fifth book in my series (called the Wells & Wong Mysteries in the US), is publishing today in the USA and Canada!

It’s published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, and the fabulous cover and illustrations are by Elizabeth Baddeley.… Read more

Competition: Death in the Spotlight is almost here!

Detectives, it’s a very exciting day: my author copies of Death in the Spotlight have arrived!

I always get a box full of my new book, a few weeks before it’s published, so I can give it away to friends and family, and to the people who gave me advice while I was writing it.… Read more

Autumn Death in the Spotlight tour – what I know so far!

There are just 22 days until Death in the Spotlight is released in the UK and Ireland. I am SO nervous and SO excited, and I know you can’t wait to read it.

There will be lots of chances to meet me this autumn, and I’ve got a list of all of the dates that have been confirmed so far below (There are quite a few that I’m still actively working on, including signings in Leeds and Norfolk, and I hope to be able to share firm dates with you very soon).… Read more

Booklist review of The Guggenheim Mystery

The Guggenheim Mystery has had another wonderful US review! Booklist says:

Kat and Ted are visiting their cousin Salim, now in New York thanks to his mother’s new job as a curator at the Guggenheim Museum. As in their first adventure, The London Eye Mystery (2008), they are called upon to become detectives, here because a painting has been stolen and Salim’s mother arrested.

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Death in the Spotlight – I’m coming to Dublin!

I have a lot of really fantastic Irish Detective Society members. I know how much you care about Daisy and Hazel, and so I’ve teamed up with the fab people at Eason’s to make sure that you’ll have THREE chances to meet me and get your copies of Death in the Spotlight signed this October!… Read more

Death in the Spotlight Audiobook – read by Katie Leung!

I have some exciting (though probably not surprising) news: my new book, Death in the Spotlight, will have an audio edition available, read by the amazing Katie Leung!

Katie played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, and she’s about to appear in Channel 4’s Strangers, as well as be the voice of Too-Ticky in the new Moomins cartoon.… Read more

The School Library Journal has reviewed The Guggenheim Mystery!

The Guggenheim Mystery will be out in the US and Canada in just a few months, and I’m delighted to be able to say that it’s already getting some great reviews!

The School Library Journal says:

Ted understands patterns but not people. Due to his ability to see details most people ignore, he was able to find his missing cousin Salim in the first book in this series, The London Eye Mystery, written by the late Siobhan Dowd.

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August 2018 Holiday Reads Video

I’m taking a bit of a break this month so I can work on the next book in the Murder Most Unladylike series – and read a lot of books!

My video for this month is a round-up of what I’m most excited about reading – as well as some information about the first places you’ll be able to meet me this autumn as part of my Death in the Spotlight tour!… Read more

Competition – happy birthday to The Guggenheim Mystery paperback and audio editions!

Happy day! Today I have not one but TWO versions of a book publishing in the UK and Ireland – the paperback and the audio editions of The Guggenheim Mystery, my sequel to Siobhan Dowd‘s amazing The London Eye Mystery.

This is the second book to feature the brilliant detective Ted Spark and his family, and it takes place during a summer holiday to New York.… Read more

It’s Christmas in July with Mistletoe and Murder!

I had a lovely delivery this week – the advance reading copies of the American edition of Mistletoe and Murder arrived! These are special early copies for reviewers and booksellers, but now that they’re here, it means that there’s not long to wait at all before Mistletoe and Murder is published in the US and Canada.… Read more