A Schooling in Murder
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Nathalie Buscombe
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Andrew Taylor
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'Ten out of ten' The Times
‘A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best’ MICK HERRON
'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON
‘As good as I’d expect from a master of the craft’ VAL MCDERMID
'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES
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England, May 1945
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.
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.
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.
©2025 Andrew Taylor (P)2025 HarperCollins PublishersRecensioni della critica
A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant
(Laura Shepherd-Robinson)A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best
(Mick Herron)This ticked all the boxes for me. As good as I’d expect from a master of the craft
(Val McDermid)A heady mix of murder, intrigue, and a supernatural interlocutor. Taylor’s prose is characteristically fluid, his ability to conjure empathy for his cast – both real and spectral – wonderfully perceptive, and the plot itself gripping in the very best traditions of mystery writing. A thorough delight from start to finish
(Vaseem Khan)An engrossing, eerie and erudite page turner which maintains the suspense until the very end … I defy anyone not to enjoy this captivating whodunnit!
(SW Perry)A Schooling in Murder captures the period brilliantly and what a loveable main character– a total delight
(Leonora Nattrass)Beguiling
(Douglas Skelton)This most unusual murder mystery – in which the reader is aligned with the murder victim after her death – is an absolute triumph. Andrew Taylor turns the conventions of mystery stories on their head to explore secrets hidden just beneath the surface within a closed community. A Schooling in Murder is clever, tender and utterly haunting.
(Tim Major)Andrew Taylor re-invents the classic crime story with the dark aplomb of a modern master
(S.G. MacLean)A Schooling in Murder is a clever, distinctive, and beautifully written mystery from a crime writer who is top of the class
(Martin Edwards)An ingenious and intriguing homage to the golden age of crime fiction – A Schooling in Murder is both wryly beguiling and steeped in atmospheric tension. I could not put it down
(Essie Fox)Taylor evokes beautifully the tawdry atmosphere, the cast of misfits and the relationships and love affairs that must be hidden, with a lightness of touch that belies the deeper tragic elements of the story. This is a novel of immense charm
(Elizabeth Freemantle)Crime fiction has a new superstar: Annabel Warnock is simply the best narrator I have read in a long time. Acerbic, inquisitive, irrepressible … It hardly matters that she's dead, although of course it matters very much in the plot. This is a splendidly lively and richly entertaining novel. I adored it
(Sarah Hilary)