Murder In Midwinter
By (Author) Fleur Hitchcock
Nosy Crow Ltd
Nosy Crow Ltd
23rd November 2016
6th October 2016
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Salford Children's Book Award 2018 2018 (UK)
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
223g
Sat on the top of a bus a couple of weeks before Christmas, Emma sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she looks away, and the woman disappears. Emma goes to the police, who shrug and send her away. Then a body turns up... Now convinced she is a vital witness to a crime Emma is sent into hiding in rural Wales. She resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery, but then the snow comes and no one can get out. But what if someone can still get in
Born in Chobham, by an airfield, and raised outside Winchester on the banks of the river Itchen, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. She spent her smallest years reading Tintin and Batman under her brother's bed, and searching for King Alfred's treasure in the river. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur Hitchcock works with her husband, a toymaker, looks after other people's gardens and tries to grow vegetables.