Well-Schooled in Murder
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Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley!
“Powerful . . . sure to delight readers in the mood for a thought-provoking, hard-hitting mystery.”—Baltimore Sun
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer.
Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers’s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew’s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds—and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making. . . .
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Horrible and tragic. The best one so far!
Their third case brings them to a school for rich kids. The divers, yet mostly unlikeable characters and the myriads of dark secrets waiting there left me disgusted and horrified. This case leads in so many totally different directions that I still hadn't the faintest clue til the very end. And yet, everything, every little detail that was mentioned at some point in the story, was important in the end and turned out being a clue all along. To me, this one's by far the best one in the Lynley series so far and so very, very tragic. Every time I picked up the book, I didn't want to know what happened, because it had to be horrible, and every time I couldn't stop, because I just needed to know!
Description
Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley!
“Powerful . . . sure to delight readers in the mood for a thought-provoking, hard-hitting mystery.”—Baltimore Sun
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer.
Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers’s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew’s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds—and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making. . . .
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Posts
Horrible and tragic. The best one so far!
Their third case brings them to a school for rich kids. The divers, yet mostly unlikeable characters and the myriads of dark secrets waiting there left me disgusted and horrified. This case leads in so many totally different directions that I still hadn't the faintest clue til the very end. And yet, everything, every little detail that was mentioned at some point in the story, was important in the end and turned out being a clue all along. To me, this one's by far the best one in the Lynley series so far and so very, very tragic. Every time I picked up the book, I didn't want to know what happened, because it had to be horrible, and every time I couldn't stop, because I just needed to know!