I usually like to nail my colours to the mast and make bold predictions about whodunit, but honestly I couldn’t. The book starts like a Tarantino film… With the main event, then we dive into the events leading up to before finally getting to the ‘solve’. Such realistic and diverse characters are hard to find. George, Pap and lots of other faces from the Tri get more definition and development. I dare say you might even start to get a favourite… But it’s not just NSquared that we get to see develop. In ‘Mic Drop’ the characters are developed even further. They are an excellent duo, chalk and cheese – always a winning combination for a partnership. One of the things that I loved about ‘High Rise Mystery’ was Nik and Norva. Her office/bedroom/shed must look like a real life detective’s like you see in the films, with pictures and string connecting the dots all over the shop! A story like this must take such meticulous planning and I am in complete awe of Sharna. Nuggets of information from the previous book that drop in to be critical pieces of information in this book. Maybe the lockdown has finally broke him! My daughter is currently very perplexed as to why Daddy is standing up and clapping in the dining room. Characters often lack depth and the plot has more holes than a bagel factory! So when you read an amazing mystery book you have to stand up and applaud the author. They can be as easy to solve as the ‘Only 5% of the world can solve this puzzle’ games on Facebook. Sharna was born and raised in Luton and currently lives in Sheffield – and Rotterdam on a ship built in 1897. She is on the board of Sheffield Doc/Fest and New Writing North in addition to being a member of BAFTA’s Children’s and Learning and New Talent committees and the Children’s Media Conference advisory board. She is the Artistic Director at Site Gallery, Sheffield’s leading international contemporary art space, specialising in moving image, new media and performance. Sharna has written three books, Tate Kids British Art Activity Book, Tate Kids Modern Art Activity Book and High Rise Mystery - the first in a middle-grade series featuring the sibling detective duo everyone’s dying to meet. She is driven specifically to encourage and increase diverse and disengaged audiences’ participation in the arts locally, nationally, and globally. Sharna Jackson is an author and Artistic Director who specialises in developing and delivering socially-engaged digital initiatives for children and young people across culture, publishing and entertainment.
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