The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss
The Escape Game is a gripping YA murder mystery that blends an escape-room game show with vivid tension, clever puzzles, sabotage, betrayal and a darker mystery beneath the surface.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Tamara Moss is an author of children’s and young adult fiction. She completed a BA majoring in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia and later worked in schools as a primary teacher. Her published biography also credits her with teaching Japanese and interning at the independent publisher Twelfth Planet Press.
Moss is the author of the middle-grade fantasy adventure Lintang series. It begins with Lintang and the Pirate Queen and continues with Lintang and the Forbidden Island and Lintang and the Brightest Star.
She has also written YA crime and mystery. Her novel The Escape Game is a YA murder mystery co-authored with Marissa Meyer.
Lintang and the Pirate Queen was shortlisted for the 2018 Readings Children’s Book Prize.
The Escape Game is a gripping YA murder mystery that blends an escape-room game show with vivid tension, clever puzzles, sabotage, betrayal and a darker mystery beneath the surface.
Disclosure: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops, or Waterstones.com.
Keep up to date with our email newsletter and our latest social media posts about reading, children's books and literacy.
Our latest reading national curriculum year group recommended reading lists:
Picture books for the under 5s | Books for Reception | Books for Year 1 | Books for Year 2 | Books for Year 3 | Books for Year 4 | Books for Year 5 | Books for Year 6 | Books for Year 7 | Books for Year 8 | Books for Year 9 | Books for Year 10 | Books for Year 11