After the first book Model Undercover:Paris, where Axelle solved the case of the missing top fashion designer Belle La Lune, she is now in New York, right in time for Fashion Week, and to solve a new case..

During a fotoshoot for Chic magazine, the famous diamond the Black Amelia is stolen. The editor in chief of Chic ask Axelle to go undercover in the fashion scene to find out who is behind it and to get it back, because when it will leak out to the press that the diamond was stolen during a shoot for Chic, her career is hanging on a loose thread and Chic's good reputation is in jeopardy.

Axella dives in to the case, and screens everyone who was present at the particular fotoshoot. She soon has her eyes on two suspects, as they have a bad alibi and one of them even admits she stole it, be it only as a joke, But now someone even stole it from her too. With the help of Sebastian, someone Axelle's mother send to Axelle to watch out for her, she infiltrates in the fashion scene, especially during the runway shows she has to walk herself. Without result. But during a night at the appartment she is staying in of the nice French lady Miriam, she has, as always, a bright and clear moment that she suddenly knows how to solve the case, and because this she finds out that the suspect is someone else entirely..

I truly enjoyed Model Undercover:Paris, so I was very excited there was a new title of it to review so soon after the first book. Carina Axelsson is a very talented mystery writer. Her style of writing is highly entertaining, in a way you just can't stop reading till you know who was the thief.
Axelle is a fun sleuthing main character. She is a teen model and detective just in one person, and always solves the case. Together with Sebastian, she makes a great detective team, who call eachother Sherlock and Watson. I did find it a bit unbelievable though that she walked shows of all the big names (DKNY, Carolina Herrera etc) but as it s fiction, everything is possible and namedropping might make it more fun for the age group the book is aimed at.

I highly recommend this second Model Undercover Book. It is just as entertaining as the previous one, and set in buzzling New York City, and with a lot of fashion between the lines. Recommended!

Perfect for my young sleuths in grade seven and some in eight, too. Have quite a few of them this year so glad for this series!