A Schooling in Murder 9780008494285 Paperback

*ATimesBest Book of the Year* From the author ofThe Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII’Ten out of ten’The TimesA grand piece of work a triumph and one of Taylors best MICK HERRON’A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant’ LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSONAs good as Id 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 shes 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.