Premeditated Myrtle, Elizabeth C. Bunce
Premeditated Myrtle, Elizabeth C. Bunce
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Premeditated Myrtle

Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce

Narrator: Bethan Rose Young

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/06/2020


Synopsis

A 2021 Edgar Award Winner, Best Juvenile
A BookPage Best Book of 2020: Middle Grade
A Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the Year

Introducing Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite new amateur detective: a wickedly smart twelve-year-old with a keen interest in criminology and a nose for murder in Victorian England.

Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England.

When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody elsebelieves he —not even her father, the town prosecutor.

With sparkling wit and a tight, twisty plot, Premeditated Myrtle, the first in a series from an award-winning author, introduces a brilliant young investigator ready to take on hard cases and maddening Victorian rules for Young Ladies of Quality in order to earn her place among the most daring and acclaimed amateur detectives of her time or any other.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla on October 08, 2022

Did you love Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew like I did? Then you will want to share this new Victorian-era sleuth with the kids in your life. Myrtle Hardcastle is 12 going on 21. Her late mother was a medical student and her father is a prosecutor. Myrtle wants to be an investigator -- combining the gi......more

Goodreads review by Natalie all_books_great_and_small on October 01, 2020

I received an advance reader copy of this book via Algonquin Young Readers to read on a book tour in exchange for an honest review. Premeditated Myrtle is the first book in a new mystery book series for YA that takes you back in time ( historical fiction) and introduces you to an amazing young femal......more

Goodreads review by Kailey (Luminous Libro) on February 26, 2020

Myrtle is the daughter of a Court Prosecutor, and follows her father's cases with alacrity. She loves to read the Police reports and studies toxicology. When her next-door neighbor is murdered, Myrtle is sure she knows how to solve the case, but how is a Proper Young Lady supposed to adhere to the R......more

Goodreads review by Amy on October 07, 2020

3.75 stars The perfect mystery series for the young Sherlock Holmes in your life—or for anyone who enjoys historical mysteries with a modern sense of humor. Myrtle was a HOOT! Characters: ★★★★ Pacing: ★★ 1/2 Dialogue/Humor: ★★★★ Mystery: ★★★ 1/2 Myrtle Hardcastle has an Unconventional Obsession with crime......more

Goodreads review by Emma on April 19, 2022

Really enjoyed this. I was going to give it a slightly lower rating but then I realised that I was comparing it to Flavia de Luce and that wasn’t fair. I enjoyed this for itself.......more