Shenanigans occur and, naturally, the girls become involved.

To be precise: the fifth book in the series sees Daisy and Hazel visit Cambridge over Christmas. Not when it's so perfectly formed and delivered and utterly good. These books make me scatty, because I love them and I can't write coherently about love, I don't think, not when it's like this. And that's not easy series are hard works. The Wells and Wong series are that delightful thing: a series which continues to get better with every book published. Long term readers of my reviews will know that I adore what Robin Stevens writes. Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage if they’re going to find the killer before Christmas dinner.'

At least, it appears to be an accident-until the Detective Society looks a little closer, and realizes a murder has taken place. Hazel is looking forward to a calm vacation among the beautiful spires, cozy libraries, and inviting tea-rooms.īut there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College and two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident. Synopsys: 'Hazel and Daisy trade mistletoe for a murder investigation and set out to save the day (Christmas Day that is!) in this fabulously festive fifth novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series.ĭaisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas holidays in snowy Cambridge. English text, and translation for Portuguese + audio in English from Google Translate. And English vocabulary aren't difficult for non-English speakers. Robin lives in England with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson. She then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn’t). When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She has been making up stories all her life.

Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery. Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder.

Mistletoe and murder by robin stevens