On Monday I had some really incredible news: Murder Most Unladylike has been nominated for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Award!

I’m absolutely over the moon, and completely amazed to be part of a list that contains so many of my own very favourite authors and books. I’m so proud of all of my fellow nominees – everyone is so deserving – and just delighted about my own nomination. Thank you so much, librarians! I’m in your debt forever.

And that’s not all! The design team at my lovely publishers, Corgi, have been hard at work, and they’ve just shared the absolutely phenomenal cover for the third Wells & Wong Mystery, First Class Murder, with me. And today, they’re letting me show it to you!

Are you ready?

Here goes!

My love for these covers grows with every new one I see. I think this is phenomenal – the dagger in the lettering! The train! The girls’ poses! – and the red is so bold and beautiful. It’s going to stand out amazingly well in its own right, and connect perfectly with the first two covers. My cover artist Nina Tara, and Laura Bird and the Corgi design team have absolutely outdone themselves, and I couldn’t be more delighted.

I can’t tell you much about First Class Murder yet – although if you want to find out a bit about my research process (ahem), visit this post here – but I do know that current plans are for it to publish some time in late summer 2015. I can’t give a more specific date, because schedules move a lot in publishing, but that’s what we’re working towards at the moment. I’m excited already!