What hasn't changed, though, is how wonderful this series is. It got better with each book. Death Sets Sail is amazing and completely fabulous but truly it's the series as a whole that really, really touched me. Daisy coming out as gay was huge for me. Visiting places and plots I'd previously explored in crime fiction through a more feminist, anti-racist, queer friendly lens was huge for me. The intended audience is much younger than I am but I've always felt this was a series for me, because it takes the best of a genre I love so much and makes it so good and so comfortable for today. I am still not sure how I felt about May. On the one hand she helped, on the other hand I just found her annoying. She kept popping up at the most random of times and I was just rolling my eyes for most. The author added that while there wasn’t a particular moment when she knew for sure that it was time to end the series, it was “probably the right time to say goodbye to this this chapter”. After getting caught up in a fury of murder and detecting, Daisy and Hazel return to Deepdean, only to find that Amina, who has just come to Deepdean from Cairo, Egypt, is now the most popular girl and has taken over Daisy's role, who naturally becomes furious. In the end, Amina finds Hazel and Daisy interesting, and would like to be friends with them, and although Daisy does not want to show it, she is actually glad to befriend Amina. Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen, who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. Three days into the cruise their leader, Theodora Miller, is found dead in her cabin, stabbed during the night. It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that Theodora’s timid daughter Hephzibah, who is prone to sleepwalking, is being framed. And within the society, everyone has a reason to want Theodora dead…

I went to Egypt with my family when I was 17, so [I was] only a couple years older than Daisy and Hazel are in this book. I have memories of being on a Nile cruise as a teenager, and came up with the bones of Death Sets Sail.” I loveddd how Daisy unexpected stands up and asks the ship sailor to handover her the case and shows him that she and Hazel are secret policewomen. That was soooo cool😂 At first, everybody laughs at them but when she and Hazel shows them their police badges, everybody was gasping😂😂 I know this series is meant for younger audiences, but since starting the series about I think four years ago I'm too invested I can't stop. Amina invites Daisy and Hazel to Egypt, her home country for the holidays, and Alexander and George come along. She becomes a member of the Wells and Wong Detective Society, and solves the case along with the detectives.Daisy, Hazel, Amina , Alexander and George , they together solved the case. Even Hazel’s father, her sisters, Uncle Felix and Aunt Lucy were there😂 I didn’t expect all of them to be in a single book❤️ Daisy works out when Hazel is attempting to fit in by acting more like the other girls. They become best friends after this. Three out of the ten murder mysteries Daisy and Hazel have solved were at Deepdean.

Married: Hazel Wong and Alexander Arcady, Lavinia Temple and George Mukherjee. Other characters: Daisy Wells and Hazel’s children. A day I loved seeing Daisy, Hazel, George, Alexander and Amina working together, because they’re all amazing! I love Amina even more after reading it, and her coded message at the end was really cute! When I read your marvellous books, I feel like I am Hazel, like I am Daisy, or beanie or Lavinia or George or Amina, I feel like I am a part of the book and that is such a special thing that you provided! And personally, I think the spoiler alert and “rules” (which, incidentally are merely guidelines since they cannot be enforced), are more likely to encourage the temptation than help resist it. Daisy is best friends with Hazel. She gets on with the other members of her dorm ( Lavinia Temple, Kitty Freebody and Beanie Martineau) most of the time although she is quite prone to arguments with them. She doesn't get on with the other dorm: Clementine, Sophie Croke-Finchley, Rose and Jose Pritchett and later Amina El Maghrabi, although Daisy has a crush on her but tries to hide it. In Death Sets Sail, Daisy and Amina share their first kiss on the boat that they were sailing on up the Nile. Their kiss is observed by Hazel Wong. In Amina’s guide to Egypt the letters in capital spell a message, ‘Daisy I’ll wait. Formerly, in Death in the Spotlight, Daisy had a crush on Martita Torrera.As for the mystery, such a simple but brilliant twist! I had my money on Miss Beauvais at the beginning (relative of Joshua’s trying to get her revenge? She was a very unassuming character after all). As there are police at the scene, they hand the diary over, the policeman understands everything and holds a denouement (the final part of the book, unveiling the murderer) and they finally arrest the murderer. Daisy and Hazel leap into action and begin to investigate their most difficult case yet. But there is danger all around, and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive… The story is written in the style of a casebook and follows two fictional boarding schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, as they try to find the murderer of their science teacher. The book has been nominated for several awards, including the Carnegie Medal. In the US, the book was published under the name Murder is Bad Manners. [2] Plot [ edit ] I just finished DSS, and it was absolutely amazing! I couldn’t put it down for a second. To be honest, I actually wasn’t that sad at the end, because I had a feeling that Daisy would have survived. i guess I couldn’t quite believe the idea of her being dead. I almost cried when I read the first chapter, though. It was awful to see everyone so upset!