Alison Weatherby
Author
Alison Weatherby is a YA and teen mystery writer who lives with her family outside of Dublin, Ireland.
A winner of Chicken House Books’ Open Coop competition, Alison published her debut novel, The Secrets Act, a historical YA mystery set at Bletchley Park during WW2 in 2022. The Secrets Act won the Redhill Academy Trust Book Award for 2023 and was shortlisted for the Young Quills Award. When she’s not reading or writing about murders, she visits schools to teach kids how to write them.
Alison’s debut MG mystery, The Common Criminals’ Club: Death Before Detention is out with Macmillan in June 2026.
