SCHOOLING IN MURDER HB

von Andrew Taylor

400 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

*A TimesBest Book of the Year*From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII'Ten out of ten' The Times'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON'As good as I'd expect from a master of the craft' VAL MCDERMID'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES__________England, May 1945In the last days of World War II, Monkshill Park School for Girls stands far apart from the violence in Europe. Yet a woman has been murdered in its grounds.Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, has disappeared. The teachers and girls whisper that she's run away, but in fact she has met a violent end.Replacement tutor and amateur crime writer Alec Shaw arrives to find a school riven with bitter rivalries and dangerous tensions. He begins to suspect there is a real-life mystery waiting to be solved... and these echoing halls hide a killer.

• Reihe: Hemlock Press
• ISBN: 9780008494230
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2025
• Größe: 239 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct