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New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
In New York Times bestselling creator Maureen Johnson’s second novel within the Truly Devious sequence, there are extra twists and turns than Stevie Bell can think about. No reply is given freely, and somebody can pay for the reality with their life.
The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple homicide that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very purpose she got here to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her mother and father shortly pull her out of college. For her security, they are saying. She should transfer previous this obsession with crime.
Stevie’s prepared to do something to get again to Ellingham, be again together with her associates, and clear up the Truly Devious case. Even if it means making a cope with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie lastly returns, she additionally returns to David: the man she kissed, and the man who lied about his identification—Edward King’s son.
But bigger points are at play. Where did the assassin cover? What’s the that means of the riddle Albert Ellingham left behind? And what, precisely, is at stake within the Truly Devious affair? The Ellingham case isn’t only a piece of historical past—it’s a dwell wire into the current.
* Junior Library Guild Selection * Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2019 * Hypable’s Best Books of 2019 *
Praise for Book One:
“The Agatha Christie-like ecosystem pairs with lacerating contemporary wit, and alternating past and present scenes makes for a multilayered, modern detective story.” —New York Times Book Review
“Remember the first time reading Harry Potter and knowing it was special? There’s that same sense of magic in the introduction of teen Sherlock-in-training Stevie Bell.” —USA Today (4 stars)
“Be still, my Agatha-Christie-loving beating heart.” —Bustle
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