It is set at Fallingford, Daisy's house, during the Easter Holidays, when Daisy's birthday takes place. The book is a sequel to Murder Most Unladylike and is the second book in the Murder Most Unladylike series. Arsenic for Tea was nominated for the 2016 Carnegie Medal awards, but did not make the longlist.

The story is written in the style of a casebook and follows the fictional schoolgirl Detective Society detectives, the Honourable Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, as they try to find the murderer of a guest at Daisy's birthday party, Mr. I would rate this book five out of five stars, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to readers 9-13 years.Arsenic for Tea is a children's mystery novel by American-English author Robin Stevens. I just wanted to keep reading, it was hard to put down. I gasped when the murderer confessed, which is just what you want from a book in this genre. This is a proper English feeling school crime setting with bags of charm. I could relate to the girls chatting about their school sports and eating currant 'squashed fly' biscuits. I did not spot the murderer, not having an all too obvious killer amongst the relatively small number of suspects was a great page turner. It is not hard to follow but keeps the reader guessing. The mystery is great, not knowing who to believe or trust.

The book has just enough complexity in the plot. This is interesting to the plot, having an outsider's view of what is going on, and she narrates the story from this point of view. Hazel by contrast has come from Hong Kong and has to get used to English customs and way of life. I felt sympathetic towards Hazel as Daisy is sometimes bossy and pushes her around which rings very true of domineering popular girls, but as the book progresses you understand these traits. There is banter between the girls and sometimes I felt I didn't like Daisy. There are more strange goings on and a murder is committed that only the girls are aware of, piling on the tension and drama. One of the teachers hands in their resignation which arouses Daisy and Hazel's suspicions. Upon his arrival there is chaos amongst the other teachers as they all find him deeply attractive.

A new teacher arrives at Deepdean, new music teacher Mr Reid.

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