~*Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson*~
I chose to read this because Peter Monn loved it so I had to pick it up! I really enjoyed it. As someone who is a big Agatha Christie fan this was right up my alley!
1930's, rural Vermont.... Albert Ellingham loves games more than anything. He decides to create Ellingham Academy a school where brilliant and different thinkers can attend for free. The concept of the academy is making learning a fun game. Things are going great until Albert's wife and daughter are kidnapped and a smart female student is killed. The kidnapper/killer wants to play a game and wrote a letter in the form of riddle signed Truly Devious.
Somehow the school manages to survive the kidnappings and murders.
Many years later Stevie Bell, a crime enthusiast with a keen ability to see the little things no one else seems to notice. She decides to write a letter to Ellingham Academy explaining how she wants more than anything to solve the murders and kidnappings. She has read every book, newspaper clipping, FBI transcript and article about the crimes. She feels she can solve this. To her surprise and her strict conservative parents horror she gets accepted to the academy. They don't really want her to go but they let her anyway. Next thing you know Stevie is walking around the place she has studied,making friends and living a life she never thought possible. Things are great, that is until Truly Devious has made an appearance again. Can Stevie get to the bottom of this before it's too late?
This is a fun,new mystery series and a good book to read for fans of Christie.
1930's, rural Vermont.... Albert Ellingham loves games more than anything. He decides to create Ellingham Academy a school where brilliant and different thinkers can attend for free. The concept of the academy is making learning a fun game. Things are going great until Albert's wife and daughter are kidnapped and a smart female student is killed. The kidnapper/killer wants to play a game and wrote a letter in the form of riddle signed Truly Devious.
Somehow the school manages to survive the kidnappings and murders.
Many years later Stevie Bell, a crime enthusiast with a keen ability to see the little things no one else seems to notice. She decides to write a letter to Ellingham Academy explaining how she wants more than anything to solve the murders and kidnappings. She has read every book, newspaper clipping, FBI transcript and article about the crimes. She feels she can solve this. To her surprise and her strict conservative parents horror she gets accepted to the academy. They don't really want her to go but they let her anyway. Next thing you know Stevie is walking around the place she has studied,making friends and living a life she never thought possible. Things are great, that is until Truly Devious has made an appearance again. Can Stevie get to the bottom of this before it's too late?
This is a fun,new mystery series and a good book to read for fans of Christie.
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