How to Meddle with Magic and not get murdered
Coming fall 2027 from Sourcebooks fire
co-written with Julia Ember
Wednesday meets A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE To MURDER in this comedic FANTASY murder mystery perfect for fans of ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and MY LADY JANE
When Ophelia arrives at St Benedict's Academy for the Cursed as its first scholarship student, she knows to expect the absurdity of the curses--students who become dogs at high tide, or turn others into lead. But she isn't prepared for the ridiculousness of the wealth--the school has an aquarium, a spa and a helicopter pad. Feeling desperately out of place, she clings on to her reason for coming--to see her aunt, who works as a guidance counselor, one final time before Ophelia’s death curse comes to its bloody conclusion.
But before they can reunite, Ophelia’s aunt is murdered.
Eva is becoming plastic bit by bit and for the first time in her life, money isn't solving her problems. The guidance counselor swears she has a solution--except she turns up dead before she can reveal it. Worse, someone has stolen her laptop, with all her session notes, which held the key to breaking Eva’s curse.
Eva needs that solution to live.
When Ru finds the dead body of his guidance counselor, he does what he always does—calls Eva to fix things. But Eva can't fix death, and as it becomes clear that the counselor's death was a murder, dismissed as an accident by the local police. Eva, Ru, and Ophelia decide to take matters into their own hands.
They're going to find out who killed the guidance counselor—if their own curses don't kill them first.
You’ll like this book if you like:
the dynamic between Yzma and Kronk in The Emperor’s New Groove
ridiculous, over the top characters who create their own problems
boarding school drama
children so insanely rich they’ve lost touch with reality
really bizarre curses