She eventually comes out to Hazel as she falls for Martita Torrera in book seven, Death In The Spotlight, and begins a relationship with Amina from Deepdean during 'Death Sets Sail'. Hazel falls in love with American boy Alexander Arcady, as Daisy struggles with her feelings for other girls. Stevens's eleven book series Murder Most Unladylike consists of schoolgirl detectives, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells, as they solve murders, as well as personal things. This new series is set during World War II. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity will star Hazel Wong's (read below) little sister and two other characters, as yet to be named. She also announced that there would be a new book (the first of a new series), coming out in 2022. In November 2020 she announced that she was to have a new book out in August 2021, called Once Upon a Crime. Stevens has cited the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work – particularly the authors Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Stevens started writing Murder Most Unladylike as part of National Novel Writing Month in November 2010, but did not send it to agencies for two years. Career īefore becoming a full-time author, Stevens worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, and as an editor at Egmont. She appeared as Captain of the Warwick University team on University Challenge. Stevens studied English at the University of Warwick, later gaining an MA in crime fiction from King's College London. Her grandfather was the literary critic Wayne C. Her father, Robert Stevens, was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and her mother worked at Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. She attended The Dragon School and Cheltenham Ladies College.

Stevens was born in California and moved to Oxford, England at the age of three. She has spoken of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as an influence on her work. Robin Stevens (born 15 January 1988) is an American-born English author of children's fiction, best known for her Murder Most Unladylike series.

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