A Schooling in Murder

*A Times Best Book of the Year*
From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWIITen out of ten The Times

‘A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best’ MICK HERRONA 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 MCDERMIDA wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending ANN CLEEVES

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England, May 1945

In 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.