A Schooling in Murder

The Ashes of London , comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII England, May 1945 The isolated Monkshill Park boarding school seems a world away from the violence that has engulfed Europe. Yet its eerie ground have witnessed a murder. Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a checkered past, disappeared during the holidays. The teachers and girls assume she has left the school, but the truth is quite different. Her body is lying at the bottom of the Maiden''s Leap, along the dangerous and overgrown Gothic Walk. Annabel''s ghost is trapped at Monkshill, unable to move on whilst the mystery of hear death remains unsolved. Haunting the grounds and school, she discovers a hidden world - both students and staff are riven with deadly rivalries and dangerous tensions. Among them is her killer.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Taylor
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2025
• EAN: 9780008494230
• ISBN: 978-0-00-849423-0
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, Crime & mystery: women sleuths, Thriller / suspense, Crime & mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Psychological thriller, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary