{"product_id":"9780008494285","title":"A Schooling in Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Taylor, Andrew | Crime \u0026amp; mystery \u003cbr\u003ePublished 26\/02\/2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Hemlock Press) in the United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 30mm | 338g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A Times Best Book of the Year*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From 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":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56793739067767,"sku":"9780008494285","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/9780008494285.jpg?v=1772026159","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780008494285","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}