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The Super Sunny Murder Club by Abiola Bello, Maisie Chan, Benjamin Dean, Nizrana Farook, Roopa Farooki, Sharna Jackson, Patrice Lawrence, Elle McNicoll, E.L Norry, Serena Patel, Annabelle Sami, Dominique Valente & J.T Williams
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A collection of sizzling summer-themed crime and mystery stories by thirteen of the most popular, exciting and diverse children’s book authors!


Co-edited by Serena Patel, the award-winning author of the Anisha: Accidental Detective series and by Robin Stevens, author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series.


Read by Kirin Ali, Marlowe Chan-Reeves, Loreece Harrison, Emma Kaler, Jay Lafette-Valentine, Michael Obiora, and Emma Tracey.

This gorgeous summery collection brings back together thirteen bestselling, award-winning and exciting authors: Abiola Bello, Annabelle Sami, Benjamin Dean, E.L. Norry, Elle McNicoll, Dominique Valente, Maisie Chan, Nizrana Farook, Patrice Lawrence, Robin Stevens, Roopa Farooki, Serena Patel and Sharna Jackson. With stunning illustrations by Harry Woodgate.
Grab your sunnies and your magnifying glass, and join the Murder Club for more sensational short stories as they lead you on a journey of foul play and murderously magnificent mysteries! Including sun-thieves, fantastical creatures of the deep, airport mayhem, weddings gone wrong, tropical resort travesties, and a very sticky situation at a berry picking farm.
This is the prefectly entertaining collection to pack in every young reader’s summer holiday bag.
Serena Patel is the winner of the This Week Junior’s Young Fiction Book of the Year award. Her debut children’s series Anisha Accidental Detective won the fiction category of the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, being shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Blue Peter Prize 2021 and selected for The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge. Serena lives in Walsall with her family.
Robin Stevens is the award winning and bestselling author of the Murder Most Unladylike mystery series. She was born in California and has been making up stories all her life. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). Robin lives in Oxford.

Abiola Bello is the author of the Carnegie-nominated fantasy series Emily Knight I am which also won London's Big Read 2019.

Maisie Chan is the British-born Chinese author of Stories From Around the World, a collection of fairy tales, myths and legends.

Benjamin Dean is a celebrity reporter for Buzzfeed and author of Waterstones Book of the Month Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow.

Nizrana Farook was born and raised in Sri Lanka, where the beautiful landscapes of the country have inspired her novels, The Girl Who Stole an Elephant and The Boy Who Met a Whale.

Roopa Farooki was born in Pakistan, and brought up in London. She is the author of the Double Detective mystery series and is an NHS doctor.

Sharna Jackson is the award-winning author of High-Rise Mystery and Mic Drop. High-Rise Mystery won both the Waterstones Book Prize and was Sunday Times Book of the Week.

Patrice Lawrence was brought up in an Italian-Trinidadian household in Sussex. Her highly-acclaimed novel, Orangeboy has won multiple awards.

Elle McNicoll is a Scottish Neurodivergent writer. Her novel, A Kind of Spark has been Waterstones Book of the Month and The Times' Children's Book of the Week.

E.L.Norry, also known as Em Norry, is the author of debut middle grade spy novel, Amber Undercover.

Serena Patel is the author of the Anisha Accidental Detective series, winner of the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards.

Annabelle Sami is a writer, director and performer. She is the author of Llama Out Loud and mystery series, Agent Zaiba Investigates.

Dominique Valente is fairly certain she has a Benjamin Button type of disease where you grow younger the older you get, as apart from an odd blip in her twenties where she was a journalist for ten years, she came to her senses and decided to make up stories about witches and grumpy monsters instead.She grew up in South Africa, but now lives in the UK along the Suffolk coast with her husband and their bulldog, Fudge.

Joanna Williams’ debut series The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries is a middle grade mystery full of daring adventure in Georgian London.

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Reviews

‘This is the ideal holiday read. The stories do not pull their punches, there is murder galore and the bodies pile up. From stories of disappearing teachers, to mayhem at holiday camps, each writer brings their own twist to the collection. At almost 400 pages, it will keep any young bookworm entertained for many happy hours.’ Irish Independent ‘This is an electrifying introduction to the world of detective fiction.’ INIS Praise for The Very Merry Murder Club: ‘Funny, surprising, creepy and chilling. There’s something for everyone here. This book is a real treat.’ The Week Junior, Book of the Week ‘Each story will keep readers glued to the edge of their seat!’ – The Scotsman ‘The Very Merry Murder Club is a brilliant new anthology, featuring short stories from a range of top authors!’– Booktrust “Perfect for any budding detective’ – Shout ‘Full of fast-paced plots, delightfully evil villains and whip-smart protagonists, The Very Merry Murder Club will enthrall fans of mystery and those new to the genre. To top it off, the collection is beautifully illustrated by Harry Woodgate, with a charming illustration accompanying each story plus an absolutely stunning wraparound winter scene on the hardback cover, which cleverly incorporates an element from every story in the book.’ – Scottish Booktrust ‘An impressive line up of some of the most exciting and diverse authors in children’s books’ – Fiona Noble, One to Watch, The Bookseller ‘Fast-paced and funny’ – The Echo Expand reviews
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