I love the cover of this week’s Book of the Week – The Poison Boy by Fletcher Moss – it positively oozes malignancy, as does the story… Dalton Fly lives in a world where life is cheap, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t care when his friend Bennie Jinks dies in a particularly horrific way.
The blurb…
Orphan, Dalton Fly, food taster to the rich, has a lucky escape after discovering poisoned wine. But his mate dies horribly, and Dalton wants justice.
Together with Scarlet Dropmore, the high-born girl whose life he saved, he sets out to find the murderers.
The Poison Boy won the Times Children’s Fiction competition and is short listed for the Branford Boase Award. You can watch Fletcher Moss reading from his book in this video clip.
