Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens

Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are off to the beautiful Rue Theatre in London, where they will face an entirely new challenge: acting. But behind the theatre’s glittering facade, the girls soon realise that there is trouble at the Rue. Jealousy, threats and horrible pranks quickly spiral out of control – and then one of the cast is found dead. As opening night looms closer, Hazel and Daisy must take centre stage and solve the crime . . . before the murderer strikes again.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Coming out themes
  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Homomisia
  • Dead body
  • Murder of a mother & father by drowning recounted
  • Boating accident recounted
  • Death of a colleague (theme)
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Poisoning
  • Physical assault
  • Threats of violence & murder
  • Homelessness mentioned
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Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy’s birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t really about Daisy at all. Naturally, Daisy is furious. Then one of their party falls seriously, mysteriously ill—and everything points to poison. With wild storms preventing anyone from leaving, or the police from arriving, Fallingford suddenly feels like a dangerous place to be. Not… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racist language
  • Sexism
  • Classism
  • Ableism
  • Alcohol consumption mentioned
  • Dead bodies discussed
  • Emesis
  • Death of a father from suicide mentioned
  • Murder by arsenic poisoning, on-page
  • Floods
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Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There’s a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects – and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs. Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found – murdered. Many girls at Deepdean had reason to hate Elizabeth, but who might have committed such foul play? Could the murder be linked to the secrets and scandals, scribbled on scraps of paper, that are suddenly appearing around the school? And with their own friendship falling to pieces, how will Daisy and Hazel solve this mystery?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia & lesbomisia, on-page
  • Ableism discussed
  • Racism
  • Nazism & antisemitism discussed
  • Classism
  • Chronic heart disease discussed
  • Dead body
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation for eating disorder mentioned
  • Murder of a teenage girl from blunt-force trauma to the head, off-page
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Disappearance of a child and sister
  • Bullying & rumor-spreading
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Fractured Tide by Leslie Lutz

Fractured Tide by Leslie Lutz

Sia practically grew up in the water scuba diving, and wreck dives are run of the mill. Take the tourists out. Explore the reef. Uncover the secrets locked in the sunken craft. But this time … the dive goes terribly wrong. Attacked by a mysterious creature, Sia’s boat is sunk, her customers are killed, and she washes up on a deserted island with no sign of rescue in sight. Waiting in the water is a seemingly unstoppable monster that is still hungry. In the jungle just off the beach are dangers best left untested. When Sia reunites with a handful of survivors, she sees it as the first sign of … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Dead bodies
  • Incarceration of a parent
  • Boating accident
  • Animal death
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Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia Manansala

Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can’t bring herself to open her new cafe after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt’s Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favourite season, has just started. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Sexism
  • Coming out scene
  • Anxiety & panic attacks, on-page
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Dead body
  • Emesis
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Murder
  • Hostage situation
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First Class Murder by Robin Stevens

First Class Murder by Robin Stevens

aisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the famous Orient Express. From the moment the girls step aboard, it’s clear that everyone in the first-class carriages has something to hide. Then there is a scream from one of the cabins, and a wealthy heiress is found dead, But the killer has vanished – as if into thin air Daisy and Hazel are faced with their first locked-room mystery – and with competition from several other sleuths, who are just as determined to crack the case.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racist language
  • Antisemitism
  • Misogyny
  • Cheating, on-page
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dead body, on-page
  • Emesis
  • Murder by knife violence, off-page
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The Marked Prince by MA Grant

The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime. Sebastian’s only hope of surviving the Court and bringing home Prince Lyne’s traitorous brother lies with Duine, a magickless Unseelie servant desperate to win his freedom. A servant for whom Sebastian, an estranged Seelie royal himself, is developing a dangerous and deepening affection… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injury
  • Dead bodies
  • Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture recounted
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • War themes
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The Harbor by Katrine Engberg

The Harbor by Katrine Engberg

When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears, the police assume he’s simply a runaway—a typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the world. But his frantic family is certain that something terrible has happened. After all, what runaway would leave behind a note that reads: He looked around and saw the knife that had stabbed Basil Hallward. He had cleaned it many times, till there was no stain left upon it. It was bright and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the painter’s work, and all that meant. It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Dead body
  • Disappearance of a child
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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Queermisia
  • Transmisia
  • Outing
  • Slut shaming
  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Statutory rape mentioned
  • Sexual assault, on-page
  • Sexual harassment
  • Forced sex work mentioned
  • Forced adult-minor marriage
  • Hallucinations & delusions
  • Suicide by drowning, on-page
  • Childbirth & death from childbirth
  • Pregnancy & teenage pregnancy
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dead bodies
  • Scalping & skinning, off-page
  • Mutilation & dismemberment mentioned
  • Cannibalism mentioned
  • Starvation
  • Nonconsensual branding
  • Scars
  • Death of a wife
  • Knife & axe violence
  • Whipping recounted
  • Lynching, on-page
  • Animal attack
  • Animal death, on-page
  • Animal cruelty mentioned
  • Bullying
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The Violence by Delilah Dawson

Mine by Delilah S. Dawson

Lily Horne is a drama queen. It’s helped her rise to stardom in the school play, but it’s also landed her in trouble. Her parents warn her that Florida has to be different. It’s a fresh start. No theatrics. But this time, the drama is coming for her. The Hornes’ new house is awful. The pool is full of slime, the dock is rotten, and the swamp creeps closer every day. But worst of all, the house isn’t empty. it’s packed full of trash, memories, and, Lily begins to fear, the ghost of the girl who lived there before her. And whatever is waiting in the shadows wants to come out to play.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child neglect
  • Dead bodies mentioned
  • Death of a child
  • Drowning
  • Fire mentioned
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