'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.
| ISBN: | 9780008494285 |
| Publication date: | 26th February 2026 |
| Author: | Andrew Taylor |
| Publisher: | Hemlock Press an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 378 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 |
'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
__________
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.
A Schooling in Murder features in the following 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
A Schooling in Murder is available in Paperback, Hardback
A Schooling in Murder was written by Andrew Taylor and published by Hemlock Press an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
A Schooling in Murder has 378 pages
£8.99