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‘The Crims: Crime Runs in the Family’ is a book written by Kate Davies and was originally published on 5th December 2017 by HarperCollins. This book is a mix of humour and mystery.

The Crims (a family of criminals) are the most notoriously inept criminals in the town of Blandington, England. Most of the Crims do not know anything about crime, but they always brag about how awful, beastly and popular they are. Imogen, a young girl of 12 is the only one who has an actual knack for crime, but she does not reveal her family vocation to anyone in the Lilyworth Ladies’ College that she started going to. Her dream of becoming the head girl of the school is dashed to the ground when the Principal gets to know she is from a family of criminals after newspapers say that the family stole a Captain Crook Lunchbox worth one million pounds from Jack Wooster’s (a rich man) house. The Principal puts forth a condition that if Imogen can prove her family’s innocence, then she can come back to school.

To get back to Lilyworth, Imogen must show that her family is not what they call themselves ‘excellent criminals’ and do not commit crimes they are proud of. To do that, she must go back to her original crime-loving and lively self and mend fences with her cousins, who lived in the Crims’ house.

Imogen goes to her family’s cell (in jail), extracts the truth out of them, and figures out who committed the crime. How she figures that out and what she does to bring the revelation in the public eye is what the book is all about.

Kate Davies is a new author that I have picked up to quench my thirst for reading and I am not disappointed at all for picking up one of hers. This book gave me a taste of a new genre that I had never ever read books on before: ‘Crime’. The events described in the book gave an insight into how criminals work, their mindset and the complex tactics and methods they adopt to execute their plan. One amazing thing about this book that grabbed my attention is the suspense the author creates before a scene gets unfolded. This has kept my interest alive and my focus un-wavered. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series! Let us see when I can get my hands on it!

Anyone who is wanting to try out reading crime should get started with this. I recommend this book to my fellow children who are eight and above.

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