My Family and Other Suspects
By (Author) Kate Emery
Allen & Unwin
A&U Children
1st October 2024
Australia
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
'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
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.