{"product_id":"9780008494230","title":"A Schooling in Murder","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Taylor, Andrew\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCrime \u0026amp; mystery\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 5 June 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (Hemlock Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e163 x 241 x 37 | 596g\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Ten out of ten' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best’ MICK HERRON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘As good as I’d expect from a master of the craft’ VAL MCDERMID\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland, May 1945\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor, Andrew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52334008205496,"sku":"9780008494230","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780008494230.jpg?v=1764862756","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780008494230","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}