Grief and family secrets turn into offbeat mysteries in Jenny Valentine’s fiction for young readers. Finding Violet Park begins when Lucas discovers an urn containing a stranger’s ashes in a taxi office and becomes convinced the dead woman is somehow connected to his own missing father. Broken Soup follows Rowan after family tragedy and a chance encounter with a boy carrying a photographic negative, while Fire Colour One centres on a girl returning to a dying father she barely knows and the questions surrounding his art collection. Valentine’s prose is concise, warm and slightly offbeat, with mystery growing out of character rather than crime mechanics. In discovery terms, the work connects with Her work contemporary YA, grief fiction, family mystery and literary coming-of-age. Read more Less
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