My Family and Other Suspects

Kate Emery

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Allen & Unwin
01 October 2024

General fiction (Children's&YA); Crime & mystery fiction (Children's&YA); Young Adult

'Do you want to talk about a fictional murder in a book or do you want to talk about the actual murder that happened under our roof?'

Ruth is less-than-thrilled to be spending the weekend at the family farm visiting the ancient GG, her coolly distant step-grandmother. With no internet or phone coverage, she occupies herself by re-reading old Agatha Christie novels, eavesdropping on the adults and definitely not daydreaming about her sort-of-cousin Dylan.

But when GG dies under suspicious circumstances, Ruth's dull weekend turns into an enforced-family-holiday-slash-possible-murder-investigation - and she's not about to let the police get in the way of her chance to solve a real-life murder mystery. With Dylan as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon discovers that plenty of people had reasons to be rid of GG, and her list of suspects grows to comprise everyone in the house, including, in the interests of fairness, herself.

The thing about family holidays is that you've got to be prepared for fights.

'Prepare to be charmed!' Nancy Springer, bestselling author of the Enola Holmes Mysteries 'Who knew murder could be so much fun? I enjoyed every single moment of this laugh-out-loud mystery.' Amy Doak, bestselling author of Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Kate Emery
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
ISBN: 9781760529215
ISBN 10: 1760529214
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 16 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kate Emery lives in Perth and works as a senior reporter for the West Australian. Her first novel, The Not So Chosen One was shortlisted for the 2020 Text Prize, the Aurealis Awards (Best Fantasy Novel) and longlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Older Readers.