{"product_id":"9780008494285","title":"A Schooling in Murder","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Taylor, Andrew \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCrime \u0026amp; mystery\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 February 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Hemlock Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 30 | 338g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A Times Best Book of the Year*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Ten out of ten' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A grand piece of work – a triumph and one of Taylor’s best’ MICK HERRON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘As good as I’d expect from a master of the craft’ VAL MCDERMID\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland, May 1945\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58179114991997,"sku":"9780008494285","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9780008494285.jpg?v=1778954842","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.com\/products\/9780008494285","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}