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Shortlisted for Best Crime Novel for Children aged 8-12, CrimeFest Gala Awards 2017 | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month November 2016
A roller-coaster adventure packed full of action and mystery unravels at a breakneck pace after Maya takes a photo from a bus one wintery afternoon. In Maya’s photo there is a man with a gun in the middle of Oxford Street. That’s scary enough. But worse is that both he and the woman he is talking to have seen her.
Instinctively, Maya knows that she is in trouble. Serious trouble. Needing to be kept safe, she is taken deep into the Welsh countryside to stay with her relatives. But is she being followed? Fleur Hitchcock keeps her readers guessing until the very end.
Reviewed by Julia Eccleshare M.B.EJulia Eccleshare has a lifetime of working within children’s books as a critic, an editor, an author and a commentator.
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Sitting on the top deck of a bus days before Christmas, Maya sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she looks away, and the woman disappears. Maya goes to the police, who shrug and send her away.
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Murder In Midwinter Synopsis
Sitting on the top deck of a bus days before Christmas, Maya sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she looks away, and the woman disappears. Maya 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, the police send Maya into hiding in rural Wales. She resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Then the snow comes and no one can get out. But what if someone can still get in?From the author of Dear Scarlett and Saving Sophia. "e;Fleur Hitchcock...has cornered the market in hard-boilers for beginners."e; - Alex O'Connell, The Times"e;A taut and exciting thriller. Fleur Hitchcock beautifully captures Maya's sense of unreality and fear as she untangles family relationships along with the mystery."e; - The Scotsman"e;For a young readership, this is surprisingly no-holds-barred, but it handles a potentially traumatising subject with just the right balance of tenderness and gusto."e; - The School Librarian
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Nosy Crow |
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About Fleur Hitchcock
Fleur Hitchcock writes thrillers and adventures for 8-13 year olds, many of which are mysteries, mostly contemporary, and some historical. With more than 20 published books behind her, she is a passionate advocate for children's reading and enjoyment of books, working as a children's bookseller in Bath and bringing books and children together in schools across the country. She has been nominated for many prizes and has won both the Leeds and Salford book awards. She lives in the Wiltshire countryside, and sets most of her books in the West Country. She is married and has two adult children
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.
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