It’s May, 1945, and 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 that there is a real-life mystery waiting to be solved… and that these echoing halls hide a killer.
A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor is published in paperback on 27 February, 2026.
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