The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger: New for 2022, a mystery-filled detective story for children, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens!: Book 1

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The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger has been shortlisted for the Waterstones 2023 Children’s Book Prize! The second book in the thrilling middle grade mystery series, perfect for fans of Robin Steven’s Murder Most Unladylike. I highly recommend this book to young readers as the story is easy to read with its chain of events that stirs up curiosity in the reader until its end. On opening night as he entered the stage, a chandelier dropped from the ceiling but it was at this moment that Elizabeth Sancho saw Dido Belle, the first black girl her age that she has seen.

Accompanied with beautiful illustrations by Simone Douglas, which really helped to bring this book to life, this story had me guessing all the way through which shows what a wonderfully written book this is. The story was full of surprises as it develops since as a reader, once I thought I knew the possible criminal, it turned out that he was not.The book also centres around the themes and rights of Africans and how the laws of equality were being fought.

This is an engaging mystery of two girls, Elizabeth Sancho and Dido Belle, which is set in 18th-century London.

The mystery kept me coming back to the book because you could never be sure of which characters you could trust.