Robin Stevens is a highly accomplished author, best known for her children's mystery novels. She was born in California but moved to England at the age of three and has since become a prominent figure in English literature. Stevens is well-educated, having attended a proper English boarding school and later achieving an MA at Warwick University. Her writing is influenced by her love for murder mysteries and her desire to be a sleuth, which is evident in her popular Wells and Wong Mysteries series, also known as the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries.
Stevens grew up in Oxford, right next to the house of Alice from Alice in Wonderland, which she believes had a significant impact on her imagination and love for storytelling. She has been creating stories for as long as she can remember and developed a keen interest in murder mysteries at a young age. When she was twelve, her father introduced her to Agatha Christie's novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which solidified her ambition to become a mystery writer.
Stevens' teenage years were spent at Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she read many murder mysteries and hoped to get the chance to do some detecting herself. After completing her education, she worked at a children's publisher, helping others to become published as well. Today, she is a full-time author and lives in England with her husband and pet bearded dragon, Watson.
Stevens has written several books, including Murder Most Unladylike, Arsenic for Tea, First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight, Top Marks for Murder, Death Sets Sail, and The Guggenheim Mystery, which is the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery. She has also contributed to various anthologies, including Mystery and Mayhem and Return to Wonderland. Her newest book is The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, the sequel to the Murder Most Unladylike series.