Scarlet and Ivy Series 6 Books Collection Set by Sophie Cleverly (The Lost Twin,The Whispers in the Walls,The Dance in the Dark,The Lights Under the Lake,The Curse in the Candlelight,The Last Secret)

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But now that she is deep in the investigation, she has to deal with a group of girls led by the evil Miss Fox, that seemingly had a grudge with Scarlet.

These spine-tingling adventure stories are perfect for readers 9+, and fans of Murder Most Unladylike, Sally Lockhart and Harry Potter. By the end of the course, she had developed something of a secret diary and an idea for a lost twin for the lead.It is an excellent showcase of what can be done when female characters get to take center stage, and it is done without feeling the need to strip away traditionally feminine elements. A clever, captivating middle-grade tale, full of spine-tingling mystery, engaging characters, and creeptastic world-building. The first gripping, Agatha Christie-style mystery starring a brilliant new double act: feisty, funny schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong.

Scarlet and Ivy both adore ballet, one of their friends is obsessed with horses and ponies, and they all love to sit around enjoying candy-filled midnight feasts and giggling. The Scarlet and Ivy” series was long in the pipeline as Sophie got the inspiration for the novel when her university lecturer gave the class an exercise. By the end of the lesson, I’d written a short chapter where Ivy found her twin’s secret diary and everything sort of fell into place from there. We see women with careers, and we see women working together to take down the systems that oppress them. However, rather than introduce the archetypal pathetic fallacies of creaking doors and gargoyles coming down into town, she puts the elements in the background and lets Ivy and Scarlet take center stage.Aside from detective fiction she also read a lot of mystery novels which made her believe that she wanted to become a mystery author when she grew up. I pictured a room with twin beds in it, but only saw one girl entering, which gave me the idea for a story about a lost twin. The first in a mesmerising boarding-school mystery series, with five more brilliant books to discover. This is a middle-grade series, so adults aren’t going to find anything particularly shocking or overly new here. Together, with their friends from Rookwood School (including Ariadne, Ebony, Nadia, Rose, and - in the end - Penny and Violet) they stop the trouble and overcome any tricks that freak each student out.