Sherrill Joseph

Selected BOOK AWARDS for The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries Series:

Edgar Allan Poe Saturday "Visiter" Award for an Original Work Inspired by the Works of Poe

Mom's Choice Book Awards Honoring Excellence--Gold (2)

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards--Gold (2)

Story Monsters Approved Book Awards--First Place (2)

Readers' Favorite International Book Awards--Five-Star Review and Bronze Medal for Children's Mystery

American Book Fest Best Book Award--Winner for Children's Fiction

Independent Publisher Book Awards--Gold

American Fiction Award--Winner for Pre-Teen Fiction

Sherrill Joseph was a shy kid whose friends came mainly from books. Her hero Nancy Drew taught her to seek adventures and help people near home. Convinced early on that she was an architect in a former life, Sherrill was receptive to the magic of her Southern California neighborhood's historic Craftsman and Spanish houses. To this day, she still dramatizes those old "castles," filling them with mysteries and exaggerated occurrences. Once retired in 2013 from teaching kids for thirty-five years, the child in Sherrill created the award-winning Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries series so other children could gallop with her and her four sleuths down dusty passageways and climb endlessly winding staircases after clues to capture the bad guys and solve the mystery at hand. Please come join them and their standalone adventures!