Ok I'm low level freaking out. My daughter has always sorta looked down on my favourite genre. (And also, she was basically too young!)
But now she's almost 16 and a very advanced reader. AND SHE ASKED ME for a recommendation!!
Can anyone recommend a teenaged-centric book or series? But it doesn't have to be teen focussed… just something between a cozy and a hardcore.
Ideas?? I just need to give her a good intro that will make her open to more. Thank you!!
P.S. I don't generally care what she reads, but she has drifted away from books the last couple years and I feel like it might be fun if her interest is reignited in something we can chat about!
by 1amazingday
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I just read the whole Thursday Murder Club series which was a lovely cozy. My personal first murder mysteries however were the Inspector Lynley novels by Elizabeth George (started reading those around age 11).
If your daughter would like something more lighthearted, I also enjoyed Mark Haddon‘s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and Leonie Swann‘s Three Bags Full (aka Glennkill aka The Sheep Detectives). In the former book, an autistic boy tries to solve the murder of his neighbour‘s dog; in the latter, a flock of sheep tries to solve the murder of their shepherd (soon to be a Hugh Jackman movie).
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. It’s a 3-book series, and the protagonist is a high school girl.
When I was little I read the Nancy Drew books. There are several written with Nancy as a teenager.