Big news for Detectives with time on their hands this summer – we’re bringing the Robin Stevens Summer Reading Challenge back for 2024! This version is themed around the 10th anniversary of Murder Most Unladylike – if you read (or reread) five or more of my books in any format, physical, digital or audio, before the end of the summer and register that you’ve completed the challenge on the Puffin website (very important: don’t do it here! This challenge is run by Puffin, not me!) then you’ll be sent a special Detective Society pin badge and be entered into the draw to win both the MMU 10th anni ..read more

Hello Detectives! What a month it’s been! I’ve celebrated the 10th anniversary of Murder Most Unladylike in the most incredible style – I held events all over the country, ending up with a huge birthday party in the real Deepdean, Cheltenham Ladies’ College. If you want to see what the celebrations looked like, head to my Instagram for more – that’s where you’ll usually find me these days! I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported me on the tour – Hay Festival, Yeovil Waterstones, Waterstones Piccadilly and St Giles’ Church, Book Nook Hove and All Saints Church, Oxford Waterston ..read more

My puzzle book announcement isn’t the only news I have for you today. This is Murder Most Unladylike‘s 10th anniversary year – and we’re celebrating in style! My publisher Puffin has reissued Murder Most Unladylike in a beautiful gold foil edition, with special Daisy and Hazel sprayed edges, a new introduction from me, and a special short story about Daisy and Hazel’s first meeting from Daisy’s point of view (first published in the 5th anniversary hardback edition and now back for more people to read!). This is replacing the current edition, so the best way to make sure you get your copy is by ..read more

Ministry of Unladylike Activity 3 isn’t publishing until autumn 2025 – but fear not, there WILL be new Detective Society content this year! I’m beyond proud to present The Most Unladylike Puzzle Book, publishing on the 26th of September 2024. It features BOTH your favourite characters from the Murder Most Unladylike series AND your favourite characters from the Ministry of Unladylike Activity series – they’ll teach you important detective skills and set you brain-teasing puzzles, and for the first time ever you’ll be able to solve interactive mysteries along with them. Part a test of your logi ..read more

Cream Buns and Crime, my Murder Most Unladylike companion novel, publishes in the US today from Simon and Schuster! It’s a very special book for me – it’s got recipes, essays and short stories, and I think it’s both a brilliant way in to the series if you’ve never read one of my books before, and perfect for long-time fans of my books. It’s had lots of really nice support in the US – it’s been picked as a JLG Gold Standard book, and it’s had a wonderful review in the School Libraries Journal, below. A short story companion to the popular mystery series. At Deepdean School for Girls, Daisy Wel ..read more

I’ve just added another event to my spring tour! I’m going to be visiting the wonderful Max Minerva’s bookstore in Bristol on the 10th of May at 3:30pm. The last time I visited Max Minerva’s it was 2018 and they’d just opened, so it’s wonderful to be back again six years later! You can book your ticket now at their website – please note that you can bring along your own books if you want, or buy new books for me to sign! If you do bring your own books, the price is £1. I’m going to be in Bristol for CrimeFest that weekend – I’m also doing a school event on the morning of the 10th, so it’s goin ..read more

2024 is the tenth anniversary of Murder Most Unladylike – and I have a lot of celebrations planned! We’re putting together the final touches to the tour at the moment, and I’ll be able to reveal the full programme soon – but for now, I can announce the very first event on it, an appearance at Hay Festival 2024! I’ll be there on the 30th of May at 2:30pm, talking about The Body in the Blitz and Murder Most Unladylike, and you can book tickets now. I’ll also be signing books old and new afterwards – you’re welcome to bring along as many as you want and I’ll sign what I can! I hope I’ll see lots ..read more

I just got the very nice news that The Body in the Blitz, the second Ministry of Unladylike Activity book, has been shortlisted for the CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children Award 2024! It’s really exciting to be noticed by one of the biggest crime fiction conferences in the UK – I’m really proud, and so pleased to be on the list with so many books and authors I admire. The ceremony is in May, in Bristol, and I’m very excited about it – it’s great to have a whole weekend to celebrate crime fiction ..read more

If you’re in America and Canada, you’ll (hopefully) have noticed the gorgeous US editions of my books hitting shelves. We’ve now published the nine murder mystery novels in the Murder Most Unladylike series, and this year it’s the turn of my two companion books, Cream Buns and Crime and Once Upon a Crime. Cream Buns and Crime will publish on April 23 from Simon Kids, and ahead of that we’ve had the most wonderful review from Kirkus, the most trusted book review body in the US. Stevens’ nine-book series is a satisfying and highly successful combination of English boarding-school tales and trad ..read more

Ten years after Murder Most Unladylike first published in the UK, it’s amazing to see that it’s still arriving in new territories – and the latest addition is one I’m particularly pleased about, Spanish! El Crimen es Cosa de Damas has just published from Editorial Alma, translated by Andrea Montero Cusset. It’s out now, available in all good bookstores and online, and the sequel is on the way soon! I’m so thrilled to have Spanish readers introduced to my world and my detectives. It’s always so amazing to see my words travelling further and reaching more people than I ever could. It’s a special ..read more