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Deborah Grant-Dudley

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Deborah writes fiction for older children and young adults.

As her interests include travel and historical fiction, she has chosen to write stories set in exotic locations, with a historical mystery at their heart.

The Lost Castle is the first book in the Lost Mysteries series.

Deborah lives in Peterborough in the UK.

Follow her blog at https://deborahgrantdudley.wordpress.com or her podcast at https://anchor.fm/deborah-grant-dudley.
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Deborah Grant-Dudley The answer is that I don’t deal with it; I avoid it. To avoid not doing something, I like to completely immerse myself in everything relating to it. I…moreThe answer is that I don’t deal with it; I avoid it. To avoid not doing something, I like to completely immerse myself in everything relating to it. I live it.

For example, whilst writing my mystery set in Costa Rica, I looked at photo’s from my research trip, practised my Spanish, read about Costa Rican wildlife, drew oxcart wheels, ate bananas, wrote biographies of people I met there, checked the volcano forecast - you get the idea.
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Average rating: 4.22 · 41 ratings · 20 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Lost Castle

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The Lost Cargo

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The Lost Plantation

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You could win a copy of my new book, The Lost Cargo!

For the month of February, Goodreads are hosting a giveaway of my latest travel mystery. Enter now for your chance to win one of 20 Kindle copies.

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14 year-old Cameron Barnes is not happy about having to give up his summer holiday for a family celebration in Dorset. But with the help of his Latvian cousin, Ilz Read more of this blog post »
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Published on February 10, 2021 01:28 Tags: giveaway, kindle, middle-grade, mystery, the-lost-cargo, travel

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A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan
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This isn’t really a scary story, as you might expect from the title. I’m not sure the hundreds of ghosts add much in terms of plot, other than positioning one of the main characters as being aware of the spirit world, which later provides one of the ...more
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Murder at Maybridge Castle by Ada Moncrieff
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I had a few small problems with this story. Any regular mystery reader will be aware of a big departure from procedure directly after the first victim is found. As a result, you will see the twist coming a mile off. It’s also unclear who the main cha ...more
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Casting Light by Julia    Scott
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The spells in this book are affirmations written in poem form. Each one comes with a journal prompt, and some actions you could use in conjunction with the words. These might be something like a suggested place to say it, or a colour to wear. The boo ...more
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City of Vengeance by D.V. Bishop
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A compelling and clever thriller, written in a fitting narrative style for the period. It was too gritty for me, with detailed descriptions of everything from bodily functions and injuries to attempted rape, grisly murders, and harrowing suicides. I ...more
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A Vein of Deceit by Susanna Gregory
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I stayed up late to finish this even though it’s the second time I’ve read it. There are so many twists and turns, it was impossible to remember the solution.

Although there are several victims in each of these books, I never feel they are just myster
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The Sustainable Travel Handbook by Lonely Planet
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This is not a handbook as such - you can’t flick to the relevant chapter when you need to make a decision and have the best answer presented to you. It’s more a point of reference for devising a personal sustainable travel strategy. There is a lot of ...more
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The Moroccan Daughter by Deborah Rodriguez
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I don’t usually read women’s fiction but I do enjoy travel fiction and this is a bit of both. I was not disappointed as this is a story that could only happen in Morocco.

The cultural information was both interesting and integral to the plot. The char
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Zenith by Julie Bertagna
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Exodus by Julie Bertagna
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This is a hard, but not harrowing, dystopia, with a climate crisis theme. The main character is relatable, the setting description rich, and the story suspenseful and compelling. But the key point is that it is scarily believable.

I hope many young pe
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“If you were making a map to something you didn’t want anyone else to find, would you actually put that something on the map?”
Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Cargo

“Cameron doesn’t want to know all sorts of interesting things. He wants to do interesting things.”
Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Cargo

“After twelve hours of blissful sleep, the world is making a lot more sense, even though it is five o'clock in the morning and everything is in Japanese.”
Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Castle

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“We're walking around in the dark in a place that has caimans?”
Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Plantation

“After twelve hours of blissful sleep, the world is making a lot more sense, even though it is five o'clock in the morning and everything is in Japanese.”
Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Castle

“Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.”
Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“If you were making a map to something you didn’t want anyone else to find, would you actually put that something on the map?”
Deborah Grant-Dudley, The Lost Cargo

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