{"product_id":"9780008494247-a-schooling-in-murder","title":"A Schooling in Murder","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Andrew Taylor\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Paperback \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 384\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*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 WWII  'Ten out of ten' The Times  'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON  'A 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 MCDERMID  'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES  __________  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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48323536191642,"sku":"9780008494247","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/1625\/7690\/files\/9780008494247-us-300.jpg?v=1781495406","url":"https:\/\/castlebooks.com.au\/products\/9780008494247-a-schooling-in-murder","provider":"Castlebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}