A fourth and — the blurb tells us — final go around for precocious young Aggie Morton and her Belgian friend Hector Perot…but, really, how much trouble can these two get up to on a palaeontological expedition on a Dorset beach?
Continue reading
The Seaside Corpse (2022), Martha Jocelyn’s fourth novel to feature the Agatha Christie-inspired 13 year-old sleuth Aggie Morton, recently won the Edgar for Best Juvenile Mystery, so let’s jump back into the series where I’ve reached to date: book 3, The Dead Man in the Garden (2021).
Continue reading
This second entry in Marthe Jocelyn’s Aggie Morton series — featuring juvenile sleuths inspired by both Agatha Christie and her arguably most famous creation Hercule Poirot — contains much of the charm that made the series opener stand out, but also falls down in ways that leave me a little underwhelmed.
Continue reading
Where does Inspiration stop and Creativity, or its bastard twin Plagiarism, begin? This question is too deep for a review of a book aimed at 12 year-olds — and, indeed, for this blog in general — but it lingers around the edge of a lot of fiction simply because of the number of times recognisable real life events have been folded into entertainment (or, indeed, vice versa).
Continue reading
The Invisible Event 