A Schooling in Murder

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From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII

England, May 1945

Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely, decaying grounds have witnessed a murder.

Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, left for the holidays and never came back. Both teachers and girls assume she simply walked out, but the truth is quite different. Her body tumbled from the Maidens Leap, a viewpoint on the clifftop Gothic Walk, and was washed out to sea.

But Annabel herself is still trapped at Monkshill, unable to move on. As she haunts the grounds and school, she discovers a hidden world students, staff and servants are riven with deadly rivalries and dangerous tensions.

And one of them is her killer

Reviews

An engrossing, eerie and erudite page turner which maintains the suspense until the very end I defy anyone not to enjoy this captivating whodunnit!

-- SW Perry

Beguiling

-- Douglas Skelton

This most unusual murder mystery in which the reader is aligned with the murder victim after her death is an absolute triumph. Andrew Taylor turns the conventions of mystery stories on their head to explore secrets hidden just beneath the surface within a closed community. A Schooling in Murder is clever, tender and utterly haunting.

-- Tim Major

Praise for Andrew Taylor

If you like C.J. Sansom, or Hilary Mantel, youll love Andrew Taylor

-- Peter James

Effortlessly authentic gripping

-- C. J. Sansom

A masterclass in writing for the genre

-- Ann Cleeves

One of the best historical novelists around

* Sunday Times *

Author Bio

Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice.

He has won many awards, including the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWAs prestigious Diamond Dagger.