Murder Academy Books in Order

Murder Academy is Sophie McKenzie's mystery series for younger teenagers, following Georgia and her friends from Mayfield Academy as they investigate deaths that other people are too ready to explain away. Georgia's willingness to question appearances gets the investigations moving, but it also puts her in danger. Her best friend Billy and new girl Wren become part of the search for answers, creating a small detective team whose friendships are still changing as the cases unfold.

Lessons in Death begins during the summer term, when Georgia discovers the drama teacher dead in the school library. She goes to get help, only to find that the body has disappeared by the time she returns. Georgia knows what she saw, but Billy is the only person who believes her. Without a body to show anyone, proving that a crime has happened becomes the first problem, before she can even begin to identify a killer.

Someone wants the evidence to disappear.

Mayfield Academy makes that problem especially uncomfortable. Georgia still has the ordinary demands of school and relationships to manage, even while a death has changed how she sees the people around her. Messages apparently sent by the missing teacher make her account harder to establish. The mystery asks readers to consider who could move a body, why the teacher might have been targeted and how someone could keep up the appearance that nothing is wrong.

The friendship between Georgia and Billy also matters. Wren's arrival changes a familiar relationship at exactly the time Georgia most needs someone she can rely on. Investigating together means working through social uncertainty as well as clues. The stakes aren't limited to whether the group can solve a puzzle: someone is prepared to stop them, and the people helping Georgia are themselves part of the life she is trying to understand.

In Camp Murder, the students leave the academy for a summer camp promising activities on the lake, woodland trails and evenings around a fire. A fatal accident gives Georgia reason to suspect another crime. The investigation draws the friends toward an old water tower associated with an unsolved mystery. Moving away from school changes the surroundings without removing the group's tendency to look beneath an apparently straightforward explanation, and it introduces the question of whether a past event connects with a present death.

Begin with Lessons in Death for Georgia's first case and the introduction of her partnership with Billy and Wren. The series combines school friendship with murder mystery and real danger, giving its young investigators reasons both to continue and to be afraid. Its appeal lies in following a determined witness who refuses to dismiss what she knows, even when the visible evidence and the people around her seem to contradict her.