WELL. So at least 2020 gave me today off so I could read Death Sets Sail in one sitting as soon as I received it in the post. All is not lost this year, apparently. It’s fine if you disagree with another fan, or if you don’t like something I’ve done in the book. But please be nice to each other! Any comment that I think breaks this rule will be removed immediately. 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😂😂

Amina’s point of view as a modern Egyptian Muslim viewing the Breath of Life’s garbled rituals to the ancient Egyptian gods is among a number of details that highlight the assumptions of colonialism, class and Empire among which Wells and Wong steer their story – which is, as always, a finely crafted whodunnit with plenty of intrigue, compelling characters – and an unexpected twist. 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. I really did feel sorry for Heppy…. until, of course I found out that SHE was the murderer. And now I love the Wong family beyond belief, because they each have their own strenghts, May is so incredibly cheeky and bold and I’m thrilled that she will be returning in the ministry of unladylike activity(!!!!) Rose is quite shy and reserved at first, but is a most excellent witness, and Hazels father… strict but great. Alexander and George are visiting George’s older brother, Harold, at St. John’s, Cambridge. Alexander invited Hazel and Daisy to come along. The girls stay in St. Lucy’s, and Daisy's older brother, Bertie Wells, is at Maudlin College. They soon start a bet, which is cut short after a murder takes place, and they agree to work together to solve it.

I’ve spent forty minutes trying to sort out my feelings for this book and am beginning to get creeped out by the silence of my house. I’m not always that great at expressing myself, but I hoped I managed to convey my absolute adoration for this book! I just have so many memories as a kid, reading series and just not knowing what’s going to happen next and being so immersed in those books. And I want to give that to my readers.”

I loved Death Sets Sail so much!!! My copy arrived 2 days early (I live in the UK) which I was relieving because I couldn’t wait any longer! I first read Murder Most Unladylike in 2016 when I was 8 and even though I am 13 this month I still love them! I think that Death Sets Sail is my favourite in the series. I loved the plot twists and I could never predict what happened next. Very early on in the story I had thought that Heppy may have faked sleep walking but as the story went on I put that theory aside. I thought that Daisy would be the one to die but I still cried lots when it happened. I was so relieved when Daisy was alive and working as a detective at the end – I couldn’t stand to see Hazel so upset! I hope that they’ll make an appearance in the Ministry of Unladylike Activity, but I can’t wait to see May Wong take the lead. I think it’s great that Daisy and Amina and Hazel and Alexander got together, and I loved that there was a code written in Amina’s letter at the end. Thank you for writing such a great series ???You have inspired me so much to write (I have even been writing a story of my own) and to do a little detecting actually!!! 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 then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher. The final novel in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, where they are taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder. 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… 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… Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries #9) by Robin Stevens – eBook Details

This book was really very good and I like this new character-Amina❤️ She is a sweet girl and is very friendly😊 Other than the unmasking of the murderer, there were a ton of twists and turns which I liked a lot!!!❤️ 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. 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). After a decade of writing the Murder Most Unladylike series, the author admitted that it felt like the end of an era — and “saying goodbye to friends”— when it came time to write Death Sets Sail. Every single time Daisy would say something like ‘I will never die’ or ‘We’ll be together forever’ I would feel my heart break. I love how you decided to confirm that she had died already in the first chapter, because countdown for her death made it so much more thrilling. The scene where Amina put a pillow over Daisy’s head? I was so tense, scared that it was them who had accidentely killed her.

Don’t read the comments until you have FINISHED DEATH SETS SAIL if you don’t want to be totally spoiled for the ending. If you do you only have yourself to blame! Amina is a frisky and kittenish girl who behaves like royalty. She is always full of wild stories and naughtiness. Her pranks seem to be her most unlikely yet most unladylike traits, making her the perfect undercover detective. The excessive flattery she receives does not make her arrogant, nor affect her amiable character, which makes her generally likeable. There’s a bit where they say like, the one bad thing about growing up is you can't hide under tables anymore. So, they can’t sneak around the way they could when they were little kids and their detecting methods would have to change as they got older and older. And so I thought this is probably the right time to say goodbye to this this chapter and and finish the series.” 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”. Natürlich ermitteln sie dieses Mal - zum letzten Mal - gemeinsam und haben noch eine hilfsbereite Schülerin aus der Deepdean Mädchenschule mit dabei: Amina, die bei Daisy aber immer auf schnippische Gegenwehr stößt, doch auch das hat seine Gründe...