DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls' boarding school.
1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who - or what - she claimed to be. Who was she really - and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth?
Then a pupil goes missing - and the case takes a disturbing new twist .
- ISBN10 1780108958
- ISBN13 9781780108957
- Publish Date 1 September 2017 (first published 31 May 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Severn House
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 240
- Language English