Robin Stevens Biography
Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life.
When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be Agatha Christie when she grew up.
She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn’t). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher.
Robin now lives in Oxford with her family.
Robin is the author of the
Murder Most Unladylike series and the new
Ministry of Unladylike Activity series. Her first book,
Murder Most Unladylike, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in the young fiction category.
Robin's latest book
The Body in the Blitz will be out in October 2023.
Robin Stevens Facts
Robin loves bunbreak, and her favourite would be a cinnamon bun.
Robin has some REAL arsenic in her house! (In a very safe place, very far away from the kitchen!)
Robin loves animals, and her current pet is a cockapoo called Howl
Robin Stevens Favourite Book Characters
Ted from
The London Eye Mystery by
Siobhan Dowd
Howl from
Howl's Moving Castle by
Diana Wynne Jones
Miss Marple from Agatha Christie's books
Our Favourite Robin Stevens Book Character
Hazel Wong from
Murder Most Unladylike
Our Favourite Robin Stevens Book Quote
'One of the rules of the Detective Society is that we never say no to tea.' (
Mistletoe and Murder)
Author picture copyright Chris Close