Death at the Museum
ISBN: 9780241636220
Description
Imagine an old museum with more secrets than anyone could ever guess. A school trip that ends in murder. A crime unsolved for decades. But who did it? Now, Ava and Luke are on the case, following the clues left in a new box of murders. Using School workbooks, museum records, secret recordings and letters the siblings start to unravel the mystery of a body in the basement. But can they discover what really happened, before the killer strikes again?
Reviewed on 20th June 2026
Ava and Luke's second mystery box from their dad's attic contains a wealth of leftover documents from a deadly 1983 school trip to the Natural History Museum in London.
As usual with Janice Hallett's novels, we're told the story through messages and documents, rather than a prose narrative. And so we learn things naturally as the characters at the time chose to document them.
It's a clever story with lots of threads that gradually unravel and reveal the story to the reader. The only thing that felt a bit weak to me was the wrap up at the end, which felt like it could have been longer and more dramatically presented.
