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Published on Oct 21, 2025 | 304 Pages
In this hilarious, contemporary YA whodunit, a mystery-loving teen finally gets a chance to solve a real-life crime. But solving a murder is complicated when all the prime suspects are related to you…
14-year-old Ruth was expecting a few fights on her family’s vacation at their remote farmhouse. But she wasn’t expecting a murder. And “death by typewriter” wasn’t quite how she thought her step-grandmother, GG, would meet her end.
As an avid reader of mystery novels, Ruth is more than a little excited to have a real mystery to solve. (Though she’s sad about GG. Obviously.) And she’s read enough Agatha Christie that catching a killer should be a breeze… right?
With her annoyingly hot sort-of-cousin, Dylan, as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon begins to uncover long-buried family secrets, finding that each of her relatives–her dad; her aunts and their partners; even, in the interest of fairness, Dylan and herself–had reasons to want GG gone.
But are any of them capable of murder? As tensions rise with everyone stuck in the house together, Ruth will have to dig deep to find out… before the killer strikes again.
14-year-old Ruth was expecting a few fights on her family’s vacation at their remote farmhouse. But she wasn’t expecting a murder. And “death by typewriter” wasn’t quite how she thought her step-grandmother, GG, would meet her end.
As an avid reader of mystery novels, Ruth is more than a little excited to have a real mystery to solve. (Though she’s sad about GG. Obviously.) And she’s read enough Agatha Christie that catching a killer should be a breeze… right?
With her annoyingly hot sort-of-cousin, Dylan, as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon begins to uncover long-buried family secrets, finding that each of her relatives–her dad; her aunts and their partners; even, in the interest of fairness, Dylan and herself–had reasons to want GG gone.
But are any of them capable of murder? As tensions rise with everyone stuck in the house together, Ruth will have to dig deep to find out… before the killer strikes again.
Author
Kate Emery
Kate Emery lives in Perth and works as a senior reporter for the West Australian. The Dysfunctional Family’s Guide to Murder, her North American debut, comes out in October 2025. Published in Australia in 2024 with the title My Family and Other Suspects, The Dysfunctional Family’s Guide to Murder won the John Marsden Book of the Year for Older Children at the 2025 Australian Book Industry Awards, as well the 2025 Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, and has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in the Young Adult category.
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