The utterly addictive new YA murder mystery thriller, The Heirs by award-winning and instant New York Times bestselling author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is publishing in June 2026. The standalone novel was acquired in a major deal by Usborne in the UK and also by Feiwel & Friends in the US.
Filled with secrets, lies, murder and money and embedded with twists, The Heirs is an epic murder mystery following the Button heirs, the five prodigious children of infamous billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and trained under the “Button Method”, they’ve had no choice but to be brilliant. When their father is murdered at the tenth annual Prodigy Ball, every guest is a suspect and the family’s mansion fills with secrets and lies.
Senior Commissioning Editor, Becky Walker who acquired UK and Commonwealth rights comments that the novel is “an impossibly addictive murder mystery with a brilliant conceit” and “will place Faridah at the very forefront of YA.”
Chloe Seager, our Director of Children’s of YA adds the novel has “characters that breathe life as easily as they hide secrets, complicated family dynamics, unputdownable plotting and a ball everyone will want an invite to.”
Faridah shares that “The Heirs is my favourite book that I have written to date and I can’t wait for readers to finally get to meet the very dysfunctional Button family.”
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is the instant New York Times, international bestselling and award-winning author of Ace of Spades. She is an avid tea drinker, a collector of strange mugs and a graduate from a university in the Scottish Highlands where she received a BA in English Literature. Faridah also has an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College, London. She is also the author of Where Sleeping Girls Lie and Four Eids and a Funeral, co-written with Adiba Jaigirdar which was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025.
We cannot wait for readers to step inside the Button Manor. As the book goes, Nothing brings a family together quite like murder…
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