
Secret Seven Mystery
27th August 2023
The Seven have a mystery to solve when a girl is reported missing from her boarding school and rumoured to be hiding in their local area.
As a mystery, it’s a good one - with plenty of investigating to do. The old dichotomy of sexism toward the main female characters, while presenting independent guest female characters with proper agency, continues.
I think this one struggles a bit against the modern reader though. The central plot point feels very scary in the modern world and I think perhaps the books ends up over glamourising running away from home, and so I suspect some parents might not be as comfortable reading this as parents would have been when it was written.






