This is the second part of the new theme I’m putting up on the Cozy Mystery site, which deals with children’s mystery books. I have already made a list of mystery books for the preteens, and am now focusing on children’s mysteries written by authors who are well-known for their mystery books written for adults.
Here are some more ideas about mystery series written for children and young adults:
Best Selling Authors with Children’s or Young Adult Mystery Series, Part 1
Best Selling Authors with Children’s or Young Adult Mystery Series, Part 3
Sheila says
Oh how I wish I was young again. I’ve seen a few books I would have loved to have read. Well those are the breaks!
Susan* says
Nothing to stop you reading them, now, Sheila!
(Especially if you have children, or younger relatives, and you … er … want to make sure they’re suitable! Lol!)
Seriously, though, I post elsewhere with quite a few adults who read children’s / YA lit.
Libby Dodd says
Susan–Absolutely! The age designations are rather arbitrary, at best. Read what you want!
Sheila says
Susan / Libby. Both of you are right. I mean I did read the Harry Potter series.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Sheila, I wouldn’t mind being younger again, either!
sheila says
read them now !
mary kennedy says
I just finished reading CONFESSIONS: The Paris Murders by James Patterson and it was terrific!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thank you, Mary, for letting us know about James Patterson’s Confessions: The Paris Mysteries. I didn’t even know the Confessions series is aimed at young adults!
(I have changed the James Patterson page to reflect this.)
mary says
hello. these books look great! why do we have to wish to be young again? i have a 9-year old niece, and often buy her these types of books. we “share” her nancy drew books, and others. i didn’t know about the katherine hall page (she’s one of my favourite adult book authors). now that i’ve seen this post, well, looks like my niece is about to get another new book for her own library.
as for other adult/young adult authors…wasn’t there some by michelle springer? (might be nancy springer, i’m still trying to track these down!)
Janet says
Might you be thinking of Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes mystery series?
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Mary, I think Janet is right. It looks like her name is Nancy Springer. She writes the Enola Holmes Mystery Series that looks like it’s aimed toward elementary age children. They look like they are fun!
Janet says
I love your list! I would add Sheila Turnage’s “Three Times Lucky” and “The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing.”
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Janet, thank you for telling us about Sheila Turnage‘s Three Times Lucky and The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing.
Susan* says
Michelle Springer ‘is’ mentioned on Google as an author, but I can’t seem to find anything she’s actually written.
Nancy Springer, on the other hand, is a somewhat prolific writer of both adult fantasy and children’s / YA books.
Her website is here, if it helps: http://www.nancyspringer.com/
Don says
My fourteen year-old daughter just read a mystery called Fuzzy Visions by Terri M. Collica. She loved it and wanted me to read it. I did, and was quite impressed with the story about a partially sighted Senior High girl who solves a murder that happened at her school. The relationships with her best friends, her seeing eye dog, and even her parents were heartwarming.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Don, thank you for telling us about Terri M. Collica‘s Fuzzy Vision!