Hello! Welcome to my website. I write about murder and mystery, and I hope you enjoy it. Come in and find out more about me and the detectives in my books!

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are the stars of the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, the Cream Buns and Crime series companion, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight, Top Marks for Murder, Death Sets Sail and my book of Murder Most Unladylike short stories, Once Upon a Crime, are out now in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Hong Kong and everywhere the Puffin editions are sold.

May Wong has returned with her new friends Eric and Nuala as the heroes of my newest series the Ministry of Unladylike Activity! Ministry is also out in German, Italian and Polish, and its sequels, The Body in the Blitz and A Stocking Full of Spies are out now in the UK and Ireland! 

I’ve also written The Guggenheim Mystery, which stars Ted Spark. It’s the sequel to Siobhan Dowd’s The London Eye Mystery, and it is also out now!

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Latest News

Almost the Whole Truth

Almost the Whole Truth is available for pre-order now!

My adult debut, Almost the Whole Truth, is publishing in June 2027 from Viking in the UK and Crown in the US. I really, truly love it, and I really hope that you’re going to fall in love with it the way you have with my younger fiction. The UK and Irish edition is available to pre-order NOW, and more updates and pre-order links will be on the way

Daisy and Hazel will be part of a new Story Museum exhibition!

There’s a new exhibition coming to Oxford’s Story Museum this summer, and it’s all about young detectives! Created by young curators using a storyline by Sharna Jackson, it’ll feature plenty of your favourite detectives – including Daisy and Hazel!

Events

May and June events: Dublin and London

I am doing two festival events this spring: one in Dublin and one in London. They are:

International Literature Festival Dublin, 16th May, 12pm – a talk followed by a signing

London Children’s Book Festival, 28th June, 3:30pm – a talk followed by a signing

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