Maureen Johnson has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins. She plans to write a new murder mystery trilogy for young adult readers.
According to the kt literary blog post, the first installment will be called Truly Devious. The release date has been set for fall 2017.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Johnson revealed that “the main character is Stevie Bell, and she is the detective of the piece…She was on vacation with her family at a yoga center (hers is a multi-generational hippie family) when one of the guests died in an accident. Except Stevie realized it was no accident, and confronted and caught a murderer. She got a burst of fame from this, and got into Ellingham Academy. And it’s because of this that she wants to investigate the Ellingham Affair, a terrible series of crimes that occurred in the 1930s.” (via The Fandom)