Home – Paula Hayes

Case File No. 01 — A Lily Griffin Mystery

Lily in the Mirror

by Paula Hayes

Lily loves all things dark and mysterious, so when she discovers a magic mirror in a locked room, it's like a dream come true. Or is it… Her new friend on the other side needs her help, and fixing a long-forgotten secret will take all eleven fingers — plus a hefty slice of Grandad's chocolate ganache cake.

Read the story →

Case File No. 02 — A Lily Griffin Mystery

The Vexatious Haunting of Lily Griffin

by Paula Hayes, illustrated by Katy Jiang

Bookworm Lily has a lot to handle with a bullying big brother and a frenetic family. But a stay in her grandfather's rambling country house changes everything — long-forgotten secrets lurk in locked rooms, and Lily is the perfect person to investigate, even if she says so herself.

Read the story →

A New Adventure

Atlas Eyesenwinger and Trouble from Beyond

by Paula Hayes

When a spectral goat leads four unlikely friends past a crumbling ruin and into a world of ghosts and dragons, they learn some trouble follows you home — and some friends are older, stranger, and far more useful than they look.

Read the story →

MEET PAULA

Writing has always been my passion, but it has been sadly tempered by my gift for procrastination.

But unlike my deep-seated fears of dried fruit and earwax, I have overcome this to write continuously

for the last few years. Lily in the Mirror was published in 2016, and I was shocked and chuffed to be

a a CBCA Notable in 2017. A little bit obsessed with Lily and her family, I went on the write two

more Lily novels. Lily in Full Bloom and Lily in a Pickle. These three novels were published as the omnibus of The Vexatious Haunting of Lily Griffin. Omnibus is an exceptionally excellent word.