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Rembrandt Conspiracy by Deron R. Hicks

January 2, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

“A suspenseful mystery romp with art appreciation and heartening trust in readers’ intelligence.” KIRKUS, on The Van Gogh Deception, a previous Lost Art Mystery by Hicks.

Something’s brewing at the National Portrait Gallery Museum in Washington, D.C. twelve-year-old Art is sure of it. But his only proof that a grand heist is about to take place is iced mocha, forty-two steps, and a mysterious woman who appears like clock work in the museum. When Art convinces his best friend, Camille, that the heist is real, the two begin a thrilling chase through D.C. to uncover a villainous scheme that could be the biggest heist since the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990. With a billion dollars’ worth of paintings on the line, the clock is ticking for Art and Camille to solve the conspiracy.

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adventure, art, mystery

When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten

December 20, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 21 Dec 2020
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 18 Oct 2020

A wonderful evocation of a Caribbean island childhood and a gripping mystery debut with a jaw-dropping twist…

Nothing much happens in Sycamore, the small village where Clara lives – at least, that’s how it looks. She loves eating ripe mangoes fallen from trees, running outside in the rainy season and escaping to her secret hideout with her best friend Gaynah. There’s only one problem – she can’t remember anything that happened last summer. When a quirky girl called Rudy arrives from England, everything starts to change. Gaynah stops acting like a best friend, while Rudy and Clara roam across the island and uncover an old family secret. As the summer reaches its peak and the island storms begin, Clara’s memory starts to return and she must finally face the truth of what happened last year.

The jacket design is by Bex Glendining.
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Filed Under: BookOfTheDay, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Caribbean, debut, friendship, mystery

The Time Traveller and the Tiger by Tania Unsworth

September 21, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 22 Nov 2020

Face to face with the mightiest and most majestic predator in the jungle, Elsie is in awe of the tiger’s beauty. She’s on a mission to have the adventure of a lifetime, save the tiger and change the future.

With echoes of Tom’s Midnight Garden, Tania Unsworth writes about transcendent friendships and conservation in the animal kingdom.  Elsie is not looking forward to the long summer holiday with her creaky, old Uncle John. But then the unimaginable happens as Time unravels and Elsie tumbles back to 1940s India to meet her Uncle John as a young boy on a tiger hunt. Can Elsie stop him from doing what he’s already told her is a wrong he can never right?

The Time Traveller and the Tiger is a multi-layered novel for 9-12 year-olds, rich in adventure, mystery, historical and conservation themes.

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adventure, conservation, friendship, India, jungle, mystery, time slip

It Ends With You by S. K. Wright

September 29, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Everyone loves Eva. Beautiful, bright, fun, generous – she’s perfect. So when her body is found in a ditch in the local woods the only thing anyone wants to know is: Who could have done this?

It has to be Luke, her boyfriend. He has the motive, the means, the opportunity and he’s no stranger to the police. Even though the picture is incomplete, the pieces fit. But as time passes, stories change.

It Ends With You is clever and compulsive. It challenges preconceptions, makes you second-guess yourself with each chapter, and it holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the way societies and systems treat outsiders.

“The social commentary, though on point, never overwhelms the engaging, page-turning plot.” Irish Times

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Filed Under: YA Tagged With: mystery, thriller

The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson

March 25, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

“Variously described as folklore, fantasy and mystery, The Wren Hunt wears its labels lightly, shedding one genre for another with a sort of slippery grace that initially confuses. But the story takes flight once Wren is ensconced in the judges’ territory, and the book settles into a deft equilibrium between thriller and myth. Watson’s writing has the sort of poise rarely found in a debut, moving the plot at a steady pace, shot through with moments of true beauty.” Kiran Millwood Hargrave, GUARDIAN Review

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Filed Under: Fiction, YA Tagged With: fantasy, love, mystery, thriller

A Spoonful Of Murder by Robin Stevens

February 26, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

The latest in the bestselling series starring 1930s schoolgirl detectives Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells. This instalment, set in Hong Kong, features ultra-English Daisy feeling “foreign” for the first time, an unexpected development in the Wong family – and a murder close to home for Hazel. Stevens’s combination of meticulous research, character development and a knotty plot is guaranteed to please.
IMOGEN RUSSELL WILLIAMS Guardian Review

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: murder, mystery

How About: Cruel Summer + Say Her Name by James Dawson

December 19, 2014 By achuka Leave a Comment

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James Dawson has had a very strong year.
In early summer Hot Key Books released his horror novel, Say Her Name, and the paperback edition of the 2013 murder mystery Cruel Summer was released by Indigo in August.

That was not all….

In September Hot Key Books released his well-received non-fiction title This Book Is Gay.

Not only that, but earlier in the year he was crowned Queen of Teen.

He acknowledges the support of his readers and fans, as well as picking his five favourite books of the year, in this YouTube video (in which he is accompanied by his ‘little friend Prince’):

Next year seems set to be just as strong, with (according to the video) two new books in the pipeline – a new novel from Hot Key scheduled for March and presumably one also from Orion/Indigo.

***UPDATE*** Just been advised by Hot Key Books that BOTH new titles are with them

His author website only gives details of books already published. It’s not yet responsive, but IS WordPress designed, so Dawson will find it easy to change to a new WP theme that will reshape the design for different screen sizes.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, How About Tagged With: gay, mystery, teen, thriller, YA

Quickfire interview: Robin Stevens

May 29, 2014 By achuka 1 Comment

from The Guardian’s quickfire interview series:

What was your favourite book when you were younger?
Anything by Diana Wynne Jones. One Easter holiday I read The Dalemark Quartet five times in a row and became convinced that Mitt was a real person.

Did you read a lot as a child and do you still read children’s books now?
I read everything within grabbing distance, almost at random. While other children were outside learning how to socialise I was taking up residence in my school library. These days I still read a huge amount of children’s fiction. I’m enormously lucky to actually have a job in children’s publishing, which means I get to work with children’s books all day.

via Quickfire interview: Robin Stevens | Children’s books | theguardian.com.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: crime, interview, mystery, thriller

Lemony Snicket’s Next Book Will Be Collection Of 13 Noir Mini-Mysteries

October 18, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Publishers Weekly reports that the next Lemony Snicket title will be File Under 13: Suspicious Incidents, a collection of 13 noir mini-mysteries.
Snicket/Handler is currently on tour in the US promoting When Did You See Her Last?, just published by Egmont.

It’s hard to keep a stealthy sleuth down – witness Lemony Snicket’s forthcoming return to Stain’d-By-The-Sea, the shadowy setting of his All the Wrong Questions series of “autobiographical” mysteries. Next April Fools’ Day, Little, Brown will release File Under 13: Suspicious Incidents, a collection of 13 noir mini-mysteries illustrated by Seth, who also provides the art for All the Wrong Questions. But the author will keep himself busy in the meantime – maybe. He kicked off an 11-city promotional tour for All the Wrong Questions 2: “When Did You See Her Last?” on the book’s October 15 pub date, but in true Snicket fashion he may well shirk his responsibilities and leave some of the touring to his trusty representative, Daniel Handler. Only time will tell.

via Lemony Snicket Sneaks Back with ‘File Under 13’.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, mystery, noir

Detective series to RHCP

June 27, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

Random House Children’s Publishers (RHCP) has signed a deal for three books about a children’s detective agency from debut author Robin Stevens, who works for Orion Children’s Books.
Natalie Doherty, editor at RHCP, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Gemma Cooper at The Bent Agency.
The books are aimed at 10-13 year-olds, with the first title, Murder Most Unladylike, set in 1934 and following the young duo of Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong who set up their own secret detective agency.

The first book is set for publication in March 2014.

via Detective series to RHCP | The Bookseller.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: deals, detective, mystery, Orion

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