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Title: Truly, Devious
Author: Maureen Johnson
Release Date: January 16th, 2017
Ellingham Academy is a
famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors,
and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth
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.
The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in
the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will
continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.
I loved Maureen Johnson's Shades of London series. This one looks kind of similar to it, so I do have high hopes.
