Robin Stevens Books in Order
See all Robin Stevens books in order with reading lists, brief summaries and series background, plus simple guidance on where to start her mystery adventures.
Last updated: December 22, 2025
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Publication Order
18 books
The Body in the Blitz
by Robin Stevens
2023
In spring 1941, May, Eric and Nuala travel to London for spy training and lodge on a quiet street scarred by bombing. When they discover a fresh corpse hidden in a ruined house, the young agents must probe their eccentric neighbours’ secrets before the killer strikes again.
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
by Robin Stevens
2022
In 1940, May Wong is determined to become a spy and help win the war, even after a secret government agency turns her away. She and clever refugee Eric pose as evacuees at grand Elysium Hall, where suspected treachery and then murder thrust them into real danger.
Once Upon a Crime
by Robin Stevens
2021
This collection gathers six mini-mysteries from Hazel’s casebook, sending the Detective Society to weddings, seaside resorts and an ocean liner, while giving the Junior Pinkertons and May Wong investigations of their own. It is perfect for readers wanting more puzzles between the main novels.
The Case of the Drowned Pearl
by Robin Stevens
2020
While holidaying at an English seaside resort with George and Alexander, Daisy and Hazel discover the body of champion swimmer Antonia, nicknamed the Pearl, on the beach. Everyone assumes a tragic accident, but several unsettling hotel guests give the Detective Society plenty of suspects.
Death Sets Sail
by Robin Stevens
2020
On a cruise along the Nile, Daisy and Hazel find themselves sharing a ship with a spiritualist society obsessed with ancient Egypt. When the group’s formidable leader is stabbed in her cabin, the friends confront fanatics, family loyalties and rising danger in their hardest case yet.
Top Marks for Murder
by Robin Stevens
2019
Returning to Deepdean for the school’s fiftieth anniversary weekend, Daisy and Hazel find old alliances shattered and a glamorous new girl in charge. After they witness a crime in the nearby woods, buried grudges and visiting parents turn the celebrations into a dangerous puzzle.
The Case of the Missing Treasure
by Robin Stevens
2019
A birthday treasure hunt in London leads Daisy and Hazel straight into the path of a thief targeting the city’s great museums. Working with and against their rivals the Junior Pinkertons, they crack codes and chase clues toward a showdown among ancient artefacts.
Death in the Spotlight
by Robin Stevens
2018
To keep them out of trouble, Daisy and Hazel are sent to help at the Rue Theatre in London, joining a production of Romeo and Juliet. When backstage pranks turn vicious and a star is found dead, they must untangle rivalries and secrets before the curtain rises again.
A Spoonful of Murder
by Robin Stevens
2018
After Hazel’s beloved grandfather dies, she and Daisy journey to Hong Kong to stay with Hazel’s family. A new baby brother, tense relatives and bustling streets are overwhelming enough, until a shocking death makes Hazel the prime suspect and forces the friends to face gangs and betrayal.
The Guggenheim Mystery
by Robin Stevens
2017
Ted Spark travels from London to New York with his sister to visit cousin Salim and Aunt Gloria, who works at the Guggenheim Museum. When a famous painting is stolen and Gloria is blamed, Ted’s unusual, pattern-loving mind becomes crucial to proving her innocence.
Cream Buns and Crime
by Robin Stevens
2017
This companion volume opens Hazel’s casebook to extra adventures, including the Deepdean Vampire and the Detective Society’s earliest investigations. Mixed with stories are detective tips, reading lists and puzzles, giving readers everything they need to start sleuthing for themselves.
The Case of the Deepdean Vampire
by Robin Stevens
2016
When rumours spread that a pale Romanian student is actually a vampire, strange behaviour and a terrifying wall-climbing sighting send Deepdean into panic. Daisy and Hazel investigate the so-called supernatural threat, determined to show what is really haunting the school corridors.
The Case of the Blue Violet
by Robin Stevens
2016
At Deepdean, older girl Violet Darby asks Daisy to solve a delicate puzzle involving mysterious flowers and unsigned notes. In this light-hearted mini-mystery, the Detective Society follows whispers and misunderstandings to uncover the truth behind a very private romance.
Mistletoe and Murder
by Robin Stevens
2016
Spending Christmas in snowy Cambridge, Daisy and Hazel expect cosy teas and carols, not death on a college staircase. When a supposed accident reveals a chilling plot, they juggle rival detectives, tangled alibis and family tensions to stop a killer before Christmas Day.
Jolly Foul Play
by Robin Stevens
2016
Back at Deepdean, a new Head Girl and her prefects rule the school by fear until Bonfire Night ends with a body on the sports field. Surrounded by bullies, rumours and anonymous notes, the Detective Society must decide who to trust before another girl gets hurt.
Poison Is Not Polite
by Robin Stevens
2015
During Daisy’s birthday weekend at her family home, a lavish tea party turns sour when a guest collapses from suspected poison. Trapped by storms inside crumbling Fallingford, Daisy and Hazel must sift through secrets, feuds and hidden motives before the murderer strikes again.
First Class Murder
by Robin Stevens
2015
Daisy and Hazel are supposed to be on a relaxing trip across Europe aboard the glamorous Orient Express. When a wealthy passenger is found dead in her locked cabin and her ruby necklace disappears, the girls race through crowded carriages to uncover a killer.
Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad Manners
by Robin Stevens
2014
At Deepdean School for Girls in 1930s England, Hazel Wong stumbles on her science teacher’s body, only for it to vanish. With glamorous best friend Daisy Wells, she forms the Detective Society to prove a murder happened and unmask the killer.
Where should I start?
If you want to follow the main schoolgirl mysteries: Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad Manners → Poison Is Not Polite → First Class Murder → Jolly Foul Play.
If you enjoy rich settings and big holiday cases: Mistletoe and Murder → A Spoonful of Murder → Death in the Spotlight → Top Marks for Murder → Death Sets Sail.
If you love extra mini-mysteries between the novels: Cream Buns and Crime → The Case of the Blue Violet → The Case of the Deepdean Vampire → The Case of the Missing Treasure.
If you want bite-size mysteries and bonus adventures: Once Upon a Crime → The Case of the Drowned Pearl.
If you’re curious about the new wartime spy series: The Ministry of Unladylike Activity → The Body in the Blitz.
Author bio
Robin Stevens is an American-born English author of mystery novels for young readers, best known for the Wells and Wong detective stories and their World War II spin-off, The Ministry of Unladylike Activity.
She was born in California in 1988 and moved to Oxford as a child, growing up inside an Oxford college just across the road from the house that inspired Alice in Wonderland.
Surrounded by books and academics, she read widely and began inventing stories of her own at an early age. As a teenager she went to an English girls' boarding school, an experience that gave her the dormitories, bunbreaks and strict routines that later became Deepdean School for Girls. She also fell hard for classic crime, discovering the twists of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and deciding that murder mysteries were what she most wanted to write.
At university Stevens studied English literature at Warwick before taking a master's degree focused on crime fiction. Outside her courses she worked in bookshops, including a stint as a bookseller in Oxford, and later became an editor at a children's publisher. Seeing how stories moved from draft to finished book helped her understand the industry from the inside.
She began writing what would become Murder Most Unladylike during a burst of drafting for National Novel Writing Month. Several years of revision and persistence followed before the book was published in 2014. In it, confident, upper-class Daisy Wells and thoughtful Hong Kong–born Hazel Wong create the Detective Society at Deepdean and investigate a death that the adults around them would rather ignore.
The Wells and Wong series grew into nine novels, plus short-story collections and mini-mysteries that send the girls to country houses, the Orient Express, Cambridge, Hong Kong, the theatre and even a cruise on the Nile. The books draw on the golden-age detective fiction Stevens loves, but they also pay close attention to friendship, class, racism and what it feels like to be an outsider at school.
Alongside the main series she has written The Guggenheim Mystery, a New York art-heist sequel to The London Eye Mystery, and launched a new set of books about May Wong and her fellow child spies in wartime Britain.
Today Stevens writes full time. She spends much of her year visiting schools, festivals and libraries, talking with readers about codes, clues and how to build a satisfying puzzle. She still lives in England, sharing her home with her family and a bearded dragon named Watson, and continues to look for new ways to smuggle big ideas about history and justice into page-turning mysteries.
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