{"product_id":"9780008494247-retail-a-schooling-in-murder","title":"A Schooling in Murder","description":"*A  Times  Best Book of the Year*From the author of  The Ashes of London , comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII   '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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737419231451,"sku":"9780008494247-RETAIL","price":29.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b6807c63-7798-44b5-a5b1-e881d3dabf0a.jpg?v=1777741550","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780008494247-retail-a-schooling-in-murder","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}