Murder Most Unladylike
by Robin Stevens (Puffin, 2014); audiobook read by Gemma Chan (Random House, 2015)
A school story murder mystery set in 1930s England. While middle-grade readers will quickly come to love the Deepdean Boarding School for Girls—its idiosyncrasies presented through Hong Kongese student Hazel Wong’s refreshingly non-English narrative perspective—the mystery investigation itself remains underwhelming.