Showing posts with label Truly Devious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truly Devious. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

 Truly Devious: A Mystery

(From Amazon)

Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. "A place", he said, "where learning is a game." 

Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym "Truly, Devious". It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history. 

True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.


(My Review)

I love this series!  A mystery at a secluded boarding school which is tied to a mystery from the past!  Great characters, with an intriguing story.

Series:

1.  Truly Devious

2.  The Vanishing Stair

3.  The Hand on the Wall

4.  The Box in the Woods (coming June 2021)

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