A collection of wintery crime and mystery stories by thirteen of the most exciting and diverse authors in childrens books today! Co-edited by Serena Patel, the award-winning author of theAnisha: Accidental Detectiveseries and by Robin Stevens, author of the bestsellingMurder Most Unladylikeseries. Sleuthing through the snow, on a merry mysterious day, in disguise we go, investigating all the way . . . This gorgeous wintery collection brings together thirteen bestselling, award-winning and exciting debut authors: Abiola Bello, Annabelle Sami, Benjamin Dean, E.L. Norry, Elle McNicoll, Dominique Valente, Joanna Williams, Maisie Chan, Nizrana Farook, Patrice Lawrence, Roopa Farooki, Serena Patel and Sharna Jackson. With stunning illustrations by Harry Woodgate. Join them as part of the Very Merry Murder Club as they lead you on a snow-covered wintery journey of festive foul play and murderously magnificent mysteries! Serena Patel was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize and was a finalist in the Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2018. Her debut childrens series Anisha Accidental Detective won the fiction category of the Sainsburys Childrens Book Awards, being shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Blue Peter Prize 2021 and selected for The Reading Agencys 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.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 432 pages in this book. This book was published in 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers .

The Lil' Author Skool is a not for profit organisation. It was founded in 2016 by London born middle grade and YA author Abiola Bello. The Lil' Author Skool is passionate about encouraging young people to read and write and want to give them as many free and affordable opportunities. The Lil' Author Skool is part of The Author School (GB Entrepreneur Awards Finalists 2016) and helps young writers aged 5-21 years old to find their #ownvoices. The little BIG Book Competition started in 2016 and The Originals is their first book. Patrice Lawrence is a half-Trinidadian writer born in Brighton. Her first published story, Duck, Duck Goose was included in the Decibel Penguin Prize Anthology. She is currently working on a longer novel for children, and we are looking forward to reading more from this talented young writer. Robin Stevens has a pet cockapoo called Howl, whos named after a book by her favourite author, Diana Wynne Jones. She was born in California, and moved to England when she was three. She grew up in Oxford, across the road from Alice in Wonderland. She went to an English boarding school, Cheltenham Ladies College. And SHE really did sleep in a dorm, and learn Latin, and have school on Saturday mornings. She did an MA on crime fiction and used to work as an editor, helping other authors get their books published. Maisie Chan is a Birmingham-born writer who lives in Glasgow. She's working on her first novel, and also writes flash fiction.