Recommend murder mystery books for 13/14 year old girl?

[LadyMary1918]

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Any recommendations ?

The "Murder Most Unladylike" series?

Set in the 1930s, where two teenage girls set up their own detective agency.

I read Elizabeth Peters, starting with the Crocodile in the Sandbank around that age - set in Victorian Egypt (English archaeologists) with a female lead. Always seemed supernatural but had a rational solution. Also brother Cadfael.

Janet evanovich?

I was reading Agatha Christie at that age. My Dd has read some of the Murder Most Unladylike series. I'd say they might be a little young but depends on the child.

Agree with pink i too was reading Agatha Christie at that age, start something like murder on tje orient express or murder on the nile

"Size 12 is not fat" by Meg Cabot and "The Mediator" I think by Meg Cabot aswell.

Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh (seem to recall a bit gruesome!) and Josephine Tey and Dorothy L. Sayers if she wants masterclasses in How To Write.

Rather wonderful selection of female writers who also provide sharp and absorbing portraits of the social history of the time they were writing about. Much more worthwhile use of time than all the indistinguishable YA fiction being churned out now!

My 14 yo DD loves the Miss Marple books.

The Ruby Redfort books by Lauren Child are excellent.

Ooooh, I love YAF (as long as it's not overly raging teen hormone YAF) and I recently came across an excellent series by Jonathan Stroud called Lockwood & Co.
Book 1 is 'The Screaming Staircase'. I would definitely recommend it. I couldn't put them down.

I've just pulled this from the blurb.

"When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in....

For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions.

Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood."

Also check out 'The Spook's Apprentice' by Joseph Delaney and the 'Half Bad' trilogy by Sally Green.

Agatha Christie would be perfectly readable, they're clever but not difficult books to follow- I should know, my capacity for reading challenging books has nose dived in recent years. Christie has such a great way with words.

One of the Marples (the first, I think?) is set at a dinner party where all the guests have a little murder mystery which they share for the group and she solves them. It means the book is effectively a selection of short stories but with a common thread. I'm jealous she gets to read them all for the first time again!

Might be worth making sure you speak about the books she’s reading as some of the golden age detective fiction can be terribly racist or anti-women. For example, Albert Campion - who is normally utterly delightful - tells his beloved sister she needs a good raping in one of the books.

Craic that’s The Thirteen Problems.

Agatha Christie, Mrs Fishers Muder Mysteries (assuming that was based on a book, I think it was), sherlock Holmes

Miss Fisher books are NOT for young eyes. They have a lot of sex in them. If I remember correctly, in one she’s have an illicit meet up with her lover in a boathouse. A secretly gay couple come and get busy and she’s madly turned on and starts going at her own man in quite graphic detail.

How about the Sally Lockhart series by Philip Pullman?

Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
The Morse books

Ellis Peters, Cadfael books

Dd is 13 and read both the Murder most unladylike and Ruby Redford a while ago, but loved both. She's reading and enjoying Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers and the mo and has also enjoyed the Sally Lockhart series. I was thinking of nudging her towards Cadfel next, but might try Jonathon Stroud or Elizabeth Peters - thanks for the recommendations!

C J Sansom if she’s in any way historically minded, and Susannah Gregory is another one.

As others have said, Agatha Christie is perfectly appropriate for 13/14. I was reading them all at that age. There’s really nothing racy or too gruesome in them.

The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.