From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWIIEngland, May 1945Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely, decaying grounds have witnessed a murder.Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, left for the holidays and never came back. Both teachers and girls assume she simply walked out, but the truth is quite different. Her body tumbled from the Maiden's Leap, a viewpoint on the clifftop Gothic Walk, and was washed out to sea.ButAnnabel herself is still trapped at Monkshill, unable to move on. As she haunts the grounds and school, she discovers a hidden world - students, staff and servants are riven with deadly rivalries and dangerous tensions.And one of them is her killer....
| ISBN: | 9780008494230 |
| Publication date: | 5th June 2025 |
| Author: | Andrew Taylor |
| Publisher: | Hemlock Press an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Classic fiction: general and literary Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives Crime and mystery: women sleuths Psychological thriller Classic horror and ghost stories |