Hello Detectives! You’ve been guessing colours and cover styles all week, but now the wait is finally over. Today I can reveal the FULL finished cover of my book of short stories, Once Upon a Crime!
As you can see it’s a bright, beautiful blue colour, with gold foil accents. It’s going to have blue sprayed edges, too, and gold on its spine – it’ll look so beautiful!
As usual, we have Daisy (with the curly hair) and Hazel (with the plait) on the cover – but for the first time ever they’re joined by another character, Hazel’s little sister May Wong! She’s the star of one of the short stories, ‘May Wong and the Deadly Flat’, and she’s going to be one of the three main characters of my new series The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (out next year!) so we thought now was the perfect time to introduce her properly.
Once Upon a Crime will publish on the 5th of August 2021 in the UK and Ireland, the 3rd of August in Australia and New Zealand, and a little later in the year in all the other places the Puffin edition is sold, including India, South Africa and Hong Kong.
You can pre-order NOW from Amazon.co.uk, Blackwell’s, Bookshop.org, Dymocks, Easons, Waterstones, WH Smith and your local independent bookstore – some retailers are currently offering a signed edition, but if you’d like to have one you should definitely order ASAP. I’ll only be signing a limited number of books, so we’ll have to close the signed pre-order pages soon!
If you’d like to get a copy of Once Upon a Crime that’s signed and personalised (with your name written in it), there’s only one way to do that, since I won’t be doing any in-person events this summer. You need to head to the Round Table Books website and pre-order their exclusive signed and personalised edition, which can be shipped to any country in the world! If you don’t see your country in the drop-down menu, don’t despair – just email the store and they’ll fix it for you. This offer will also be closing before the publication date, to make sure that everyone gets their copies in time, so again, don’t delay!
