My Family and Other Suspects

Kate Emery

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Allen & Unwin
01 October 2024

General fiction (Children's&YA); Crime & mystery fiction (Children's&YA); Young Adult

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Ruth is unimpressed to be spending a weekend with her relatives on her step-grandmother GG's farm. There's no internet or phone reception, although there ARE plenty of old murder mystery books around (even if she's read them before).

When GG is found dead, killed by her old typewriter, 14yo Ruth goes into full detective mode, and decides one of her family must have done it...

Set in rural Western Australia, this is a sassy and quite funny read. There are no themes in particular, but is purely entertaining, with a great narrative voice! Lindy

WINNER: 2025 Indie Young Adult Book Awards NOTABLE BOOK: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers SHORTLISTED: 2025 John Marsden Book of the Year for Older Children, Australian Book Industry Awards Selected as one of the Best Young Adult Books for 2024 - Readings Books

Ruth is not 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, Ruth 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.

'Prepare to be charmed!' Nancy Springer, bestselling author of The Enola Holmes Mysteries 'Who knew murder could be so much fun? I enjoyed every single moment of this laugh-out-loud mystery.' Amy Doak, bestselling author of Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Kate Emery
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
ISBN: 9781760529215
ISBN 10: 1760529214
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 16 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for My Family and Other Suspects

'Prepare to be charmed!'Nancy Springer, bestselling author of The Enola Holmes Mysteries

Long-listed for Best Young Adult Fiction 2025 (Australia)
Long-listed for Book of Year: Older Readers 2025 (Australia)
Long-listed for Indie Book Awards 2025 (Australia)
Long-listed for One of the Best Young Adult Books for 2024 - Readings Books 2024 (Australia)
Short-listed for Best Young Adult Fiction 2025 (Australia)
Short-listed for Indie Book Awards 2025 (Australia)
Short-listed for One of the Best Young Adult Books for 2024 - Readings Books 2024 (Australia)
Winner of One of the Best Young Adult Books for 2024 - Readings Books 2024 (Australia)