Sobre la Academia Ellingham debe de pesar una maldición. Ya han muerto tres personas. Una, víctima de una broma que salió mal o de un asesinato. Otra, por una fatalidad. Y ahora, un accidente en Burlington se ha cobrado una nueva vida. Y todo justo en el momento de mayor triunfo de Stevie Bell…
Sabe quién es Atentamente Perverso. Lo ha resuelto. El crimen del siglo.
Al menos, eso cree. Con esta nueva tragedia, es difícil concentrarse en el pasado. No solo ha muerto una persona en la ciudad, sino que además David ha desaparecido por propia voluntad y está tramando algo. Stevie está segura de que de alguna manera —de alguna manera— todo guarda relación. Las tres muertes del presente. Las muertes del pasado. La desaparición de Alice Ellingham y la desaparición de David Eastman. En algún lugar de este mundo de enigmas y acertijos deben encontrarse las respuestas.
Después sobreviene otro imprevisto cuando una gigantesca tormenta de nieve se cierne sobre Vermont. La Academia Ellingham es evacuada. Obviamente, es el momento de que Stevie Bell haga una tontería. Es el momento de quedarse en la montaña y enfrentarse a la tormenta… y a un asesinato.
En la estimulante conclusión de la trilogía El Caso Vermont, la escritora Maureen Johnson, líder de ventas del New York Times, trenza con mano experta los dos hilos narrativos y hace estallar un explosivo final para todos los que hemos recorrido la Academia Ellingham.
«Esta trilogía de Johnson es deliciosamente evocadora, con un elenco cada vez más numeroso de complejos sospechosos y víctimas en potencia, giros dramáticos sorprendentes y una pizca de romance».
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
«¿Os acordáis cuando empezasteis a leer Harry Potter y supisteis que se trataba de algo especial? Pues existe la misma sensación mágica con la introducción de la aprendiz de Sherlock Holmes adolescente Stevie Bell».
USA TODAY
«Johnson da forma a su libro más original y minuciosamente urdido, una novela con misterios que se solapan entre los años treinta y el presente y que va desgranando cuidadosamente capítulo tras capítulo».
KIRKUS
«Una serie de trama intricada y lectura compulsiva que no solo investiga crímenes fascinantes, sino también los misterios de la ansiedad, el proceso creativo, la fama contemporánea y mucho más».
JOHN GREEN
¿DÓNDE BUSCAS A ALGUIEN QUE EN REALIDAD NUNCA ESTÁ?
SIEMPRE EN UNA ESCALINATA PERO NUNCA EN LA ESCALERA…
Los sugerentes acertijos que se ocultan tras los asesinatos del internado Ellingham, el centro privado fundado en 1930 por el millonario excéntrico Albert Ellingham en las remotas montañas de Vermont, siguen esperando a que alguien los resuelva; y Stevie sabe que está muy muy cerca. Sin embargo, el camino hacia la verdad tiene más obstáculos de los que se imagina…, y continuar avanzando implica hacer daño a alguien que quiere.
EN LA SEGUNDA ENTREGA DE LA TRILOGÍA EL CASO VERMONT DE MAUREEN JOHNSON, TODO TIENE UN PRECIO, Y ALGUIEN PAGARÁ LA VERDAD CON SU VIDA.
«Os lo asegura el lector más impaciente del mundo: si la serie El caso Vermont es básicamente una novela de misterio muy larga, Nunca en la escalera… es una parte central tan amena que ni siquiera os entrarán ganas de saltaros nada para leer el final».
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
«Esperar la siguiente entrega de esta serie que rinde homenaje a los clásicos del misterio Agatha Christie y Sherlock Holmes fue una tortura, pero Nunca en la escalera… mereció la pena».
USA TODAY
«Johnson da forma a su novela más original y minuciosamente urdida, un libro con misterios que se solapan entre los años treinta y el presente y que va desgranando cuidadosamente capítulo tras capítulo».
KIRKUS
«Esta segunda entrega es un toma y daca: varios misterios importantes se resuelven de manera satisfactoria, pero otros acertijos del pasado permanecen angustiosamente indescifrables, y otros más entran en juego casi al llegar a su enigmático final.
Agatha Christie se sentiría orgullosa».
BOOKLIST
Nada permanece enterrado para siempre
Stevie Bell es una entusiasta fan de la investigación criminal. ¿Y qué mejor lugar para profundizar en sus conocimientos que la Academia Ellingham, el centro privado fundado en 1930 por el millonario excéntrico Albert Ellingham en las remotas montañas de Vermont? La prestigiosa y exclusiva academia, en la que solo se acepta a un reducido número de alumnos brillantes, fue la escena de un crimen que lleva décadas sin resolver y del que Stevie lo sabe casi todo.
Coincidiendo con la llegada de Stevie, el pasado sale de su tumba y la muerte vuelve a visitar la misteriosa Academia que se esconde en el monte Vermont.
«Maureen Johnson posee una imaginación absolutamente original, una apasionada colección de convicciones morales, un extraordinario sentido de la valentía y el ridículo y escribe frases bellísimas. Leed todo lo que escriba.»
E. Lockhart
Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she’s taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.
Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college, love, and life in general.
Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax.
The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can’t explain. This was no break-in. Someone’s lying about what happened in the woodshed.
Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.
Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she’s back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer.
But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls—the site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies left in a gruesome display. The new owner offers Stevie an invitation: Come to the camp and help him work on a true crime podcast about the case.
Stevie agrees, as long as she can bring along her friends from Ellingham Academy. Nothing sounds better than a summer spent together, investigating old murders.
But something evil still lurks in Barlow Corners. When Stevie opens the lid on this long-dormant case, she gets much more than she bargained for. The Box in the Woods will make room for more victims. This time, Stevie may not make it out alive.
* Cosmopolitan Best YA Books of 2021 * People Magazine Best Books of Summer 2021*
An electric new story of teenage Cruella de Vil in an original novel inspired by the upcoming Walt Disney Studios Live Action Film, Cruella.
Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to joining the ranks of the London design elite when she's sewing endless costumes and disguises for the trio's heists?
When a chance encounter with Magda and Richard Moresby-Plum, two young scions of high society, vaults Estella into the world of the rich and famous, she begins to wonder whether she might be destined for more after all. Suddenly, Estella's days are filled with glamorous parties, exclusive eateries, flirtations with an up-and-coming rock star, and, of course, the most cutting-edge fashions money can buy. But what is the true cost of keeping up with the fast crowd—and is it a price Estella is willing to pay?
New York Times and USA Today bestseller!
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years.
Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .
She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century.
At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it’s hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow—somehow—all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.
Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated. Obviously, it’s time for Stevie to do something stupid. It’s time to stay on the mountain and face the storm—and a murderer.
In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who’ve walked through Ellingham Academy.
Praise for the Truly Devious series:
“Readers, hang tight: there’s one more round to come, and if the signs are right, it’ll be to die for.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“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 (four stars)
“Be still, my Agatha-Christie-loving beating heart.” —Bustle
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An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.
A trio of today's bestselling authors - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle - brings all the magic of holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away.
The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray.
Follow Brother Zachariah and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealing and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin and Tessa Gray plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no-one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah.
The series features characters from Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, Dark Artifices and the upcoming Last Hours series.
In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life.
The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say. She must move past this obsession with crime.
Stevie’s willing to do anything to get back to Ellingham, be back with her friends, and solve the Truly Devious case. Even if it means making a deal with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie finally returns, she also returns to David: the guy she kissed, and the guy who lied about his identity—Edward King’s son.
But larger issues are at play. Where did the murderer hide? What’s the meaning of the riddle Albert Ellingham left behind? And what, exactly, is at stake in the Truly Devious affair? The Ellingham case isn’t just a piece of history—it’s a live wire into the present.
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 (four stars)
“Be still, my Agatha-Christie-loving beating heart.” —Bustle
It is only three years since Tessa Gray lost her beloved husband William Herondale, and she is searching for a reason to live, trying to find the path of being a warlock with the guidance of her friend Catarina Loss. World War 2 rains down destruction on their world, and Tessa and Catarina become nurses who make bargains at the Shadow Market for enchantments to help suffering mundanes. But can Brother Zachariah bear to see the woman he loves risk her life, or might he consider breaking sacred vows to save her from loneliness?
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