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.