Arsenic for Tea reviewed in the Literary Review Summer Round-Up

July 22, 2015

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Arsenic for Tea has been featured in the Literary Review‘s summer children’s round-up! Philip Womack says:

‘It is refreshing to see the presence of so many rambunctious young women in children’s books, and none are more so than the protagonists of Robin Stevens’s Wells & Wong Mysteries, which see two girls solving murders in the 1920s.Arsenic for Tea (Corgi 352pp ￡6.99) brings the terror right into Daisy Wells’s house, when an annoying, adulterous guest is murdered and her entire family falls under suspicion. Hazel Wong, an uber-rich Hong Kongite, throws the habits of the British upper classes into relief. Stevens brings psychological depth to the classic Christie crime; she does not shirk the unpalatable consequences.’

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