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Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but did not send it to agencies for two years. [ 8 ] Stevens has cited the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work – particularly the authors Agatha Christie , Ngaio Marsh , Margery Allingham , and Dorothy L. Sayers .
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was named one of the best books of 2020 by Barnes and Noble [2] and received the following accolades: American Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (2021) [3] Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2020) [4] YA Book Prize shortlist (2020) [5]
A sequel, Arsenic For Tea, was published seven months after Murder Most Unladylike. Since the first Murder Most Unladylike book, there have been ten subsequent books, along with six extra mini-books. In 2022, a new series, Ministry of Unladylike Activity was released, featuring characters related to those in the Murder Most Unladylike series. A ...
The book details the history of Emmett Till, a teenaged African-American boy, who was abducted and murdered after offending a white woman at a grocery store. The book was positively received and won an American Library Association award for Best Book for Young Adults in 2004 and the Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book Award for Older Children.
The Graveyard Book is a young adult novel written by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America in 2008. The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody "Bod" Owens, who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered.
The Clue series is a book series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s based on the board game Clue. The books are compilations of mini-mysteries that the reader must solve involving various crimes committed at the home of Reginald Boddy by six of his closest "friends".
Holly Jackson grew up in Buckinghamshire, near Oxford in England and wrote her first published novel when she was 30 years old. [1] [2]Later, she attended the University of Nottingham, where she first studied literary linguistics and creative writing, [2] graduating with a first class degree, [1] then graduating with a master's degree in English.
Novels about serial killers, persons who murder two or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time. The serial killers' psychological gratification is the motivation for the killings, and many serial murders involve sexual contact with the victims at different points during the murder process.