Review: Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

This mystery, originally published in 1944 and set in a military hospital during the Blitz, is a fun and fiendish puzzle with a soapy hospital drama feel!

Review: Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

The 100th instalment in the British Library’s Crime Classics series is a fantastically fun bookish romp of a mystery!

Review: Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer

The week between Christmas and New Year seemed like the perfect time to review this festive classic crime novel!

Review: Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold

I’ve just discovered this review languishing in my drafts, oh no! But don’t take my long silence as anything but a mistake – this book deserves shouting about!

Review: Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery and The Burglar’s Ball

I’ve read the first two books in this fab new middle grade mystery series close together, so this will be a combined review!

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Review: Clifftoppers – The Frost Castle Adventure

This fab series of middle grade mysteries continues with the exciting fourth book, The Frost Castle Adventure!

Review: The Angel of the Crows

If you like your Sherlock Holmes retellings with a touch of the paranormal, The Angel of the Crows is a solid addition to the genre!

Middle Grade Mystery Mini-Reviews

I’ve read several books recently that seem to be on a similar theme, so I thought I’d scoop them all up into one post of mini reviews. None of these were quite my usual cup of tea, but they should all be hits with those who love middle grade mysteries set in the real world!

All three of these were sent free of charge for me to review; the first two were unsolicited physical proofs from Nosy Crow and the last was one I requested from NetGalley.

The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger

Review: Premeditated Myrtle

I don’t read a lot of audiobooks, but something about the sample of Premeditated Myrtle made me give it a go, and I’m so glad I did – this is a great middle grade mystery with a really fun heroine!

Review: The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour

As a teen I was a big fan of Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series, which is set in an elite boarding school that’s a front for a training academy for spies – they were a lot of fun! Since they were heavy on the teen drama, I was interested to see that she’d turned her hand to middle grade with her new book, The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour.