The Merry Christmas Murders

Brooke has always struggled to fit in, but her worries that this school will be the same as the last disappear when she meets The Neurokind Club at Wood Dean Secondary. Just as she is beginning to feel like she may have found a place where she belongs, disaster strikes and Dr Buxted, the headteacher, is found dead, murdered by mince pie with a promise of more to come!

Brooke and her new friends join forces and use their individual skills to try to find a motive and solve the mystery before anyone else gets hurt. Soon, one body turns into two and many of the teachers are looking highly suspicious.

Diverse characters with a range of neurodivergence are represented in this fast-paced, festive fiction, and it is filled with hidden clues and puzzles along the way that you can choose to solve as an add-on to the main narrative. The story touches on themes of friendship, belonging, overwhelm and social recovery, whilst celebrating the characters’ skills and achievements that make them all so unique. A ‘cracker’ of a mystery and great ‘I see me’ read for neurodivergent pupils and their peers, featuring characters with ADHD, autism, dyslexia and dyscalculia.