By Alexandra Benedict (author) Part of the Merry Christmas Murders series
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Murder is AFOOT in this brand new murder-mystery series by leading adult crime writer, Alexandra Benedict. Perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time with a puzzle hook for middle grade readers People will die for a good mince pie… Every year, six local schools compete to win the Christmas Cup.
Last year, the rival school to Brooke Parkin's school won for the most crackers pulled in a minute! This year, the cup will be judged and awarded to the school with the perfect mince pie. But when a series of murders seemed to be linked to the very mince pies (each with a clue from a letter from the alphabet imprinted in the pastry) the five neuro-divergent children must turn detective and combine their skill sets to find the killer.
Can they prevent another death and save their out-of-school club from being shut down forever . . .?
Alexandra (AK) Benedict is a bestselling, award-winning writer of short stories, novels and scripts. Educated at Cambridge, Sussex and Clown School, Alexandra has been an indie-rock singer, an actor, an RLF Fellow and a composer for film and TV, as well as teaching and running the prestigious MA in Crime Thrillers at City University. She is now a full-time writer and creative coach. As AK Benedict, she writes acclaimed short stories, high-concept novels and award-winning audio drama for Big Finish, Audible UK, Audible US and BBC Sounds among others. She won the Scribe Award for her Doctor Who radio drama, The Calendar Man, and was shortlisted for the eDunnit Novel Award for The Beauty of Murder and the BBC Audio Drama Podcast Award for Children of the Stones. Her Christmas mysteries, The Christmas Murder Game and Murder on the Christmas Express, were both bestsellers, and The Christmas Murder Game was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Alexandra lives on the south coast of England with writer Guy Adams, their daughter, Verity, and dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Merry Christmas Murders and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
The Merry Christmas Murders features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Crime & Mystery, Funny, Festive Fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Recommendations, Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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The Merry Christmas Murders was written by Alexandra Benedict and published by Simon & Schuster Children's an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK
The Merry Christmas Murders has 227 pages
Yes it is part of Merry Christmas Murders series
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