Recommendations for 12 year old

[purpleme12]

Firstly, I would like to point out that she is NOT a big or keen reader AT ALL. She reads Lottie Brooks, Wimpy Kid, and hasn't read much else for a long time. So books aimed at below her age are also very ok to recommend! I think she actually gets overwhelmed looking at a book.

What I'm asking for is -
She likes watching Good Ship Murder, Beyond Paradise and Death Valley and Return to Paradise
So..... Are there any recommendations for books which involve murder or crime or intrigue or mystery like that or suspicious things? Because that's what she likes about the TV programmes

Is there any people might be able to recommend that she might get sucked into from the start? And wouldn't be overwhelming?

Agatha Christie would be great.

Murder most unladylike series it’s geared toward 9-12 year olds so not too heavy to read.

A Box Full of Murders by Janice Hallet is aimed at 9-13 year olds. Ava & Luke find a box in their dad's attic containing newspaper clips, diary entries, and letters about an unsolved murder at a Scout & Guide camp in the 80s. They try to solve the case and realise that the killer might still be out there.

A lot of the story is told through the campers' diary entries, letters, lost property forms, incident reports, and timetables, so it's quite immersive and encourages the reader to consider various sources & inferences to solve the mystery themselves. Your daughter may also find the mixed media format more digestible as it breaks the text up rather than being a wall of text.

Enola Holmes?
The three investigators
crookhaven

Thank you very much

Sounds like promising suggestions

I have a look at these

Murder by Narwhal by Alex T Smith
(funny middle-grade murder mystery)