No One Escapes the Island

The brilliant and irrepressible detective from the acclaimed fairy-tale/murder-mystery mashup No One Leaves the Castle returns—with a new dead body, a new cast of shady characters, and a new twist-filled adventure set on a mysterious island.

Lila, aka the Lilac, aka the most brilliant detective of all time, thought that saving a castle full of nobles from certain doom and bringing a killer to justice would mean her sleuthing career could finally begin. But being a princess in the richest of all the Thirteen Kingdoms comes with drawbacks, and her parents, King Gareth and Queen Gertrude, are of no mind to allow their thirteen-year-old daughter to spend all her time solving murder mysteries.

That is, until they all find themselves in the middle of one.

A wealthy and reclusive businessman named Calumnius Murk has invited an elite group of royals and high society types from across the Thirteen Kingdoms to his remote island resort—including Lila and her parents. No one is sure how Murk made his fortune, but you can’t climb as high as he has without stepping on a few people in the process. And Lila and her best friend, Netta, suspect that some of Murk’s enemies may be on the guest list.

A suspicion that is confirmed when the dead body is discovered.

Surrounded by secretive nobles with mysterious connections to each other and everything to lose, Lila knows she has only one choice: to solve this case. Because if she can’t, she might be the one who loses everything.

"If Agatha Christie ran the funniest D&D campaign in the world, it would be this book." — Adam Gidwitz, New York Times-bestselling author of A Tale Dark & Grimm