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Stevie Bell, a true-crime obsessive, wins a place at Ellingham Academy in the Vermont mountains, where in 1936 the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped, and arrives meaning to solve the case.
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Jet Mason is attacked on Halloween in her Vermont hometown and wakes with a brain injury that will kill her within a week, so she spends the time she has left trying to solve her own murder with the help of an old friend, Billy.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
For her final-year school project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the case of Andie Bell, who vanished from their English town five years ago and was believed to have been killed by her boyfriend Sal, and Pip is sure the police got it wrong.
I Have Some Questions for You
A film professor and podcaster returns to the New Hampshire boarding school she attended to teach a short course, and her students' project reopens the 1995 murder of her former roommate.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
One of Us Is Lying
Five students walk into detention at Bayview High and only four walk out: Simon, creator of the school's notorious gossip app, dies, and the other four, each with a secret Simon was about to post, become suspects.
The Perfect Couple
On the morning of a lavish Nantucket wedding, the maid of honour is found dead in the harbour, and as the police chief questions the bride, the groom, his wealthy family and their guests, each turns out to be hiding something.
Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.
A Is for Alibi
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Ernest Cunningham, who writes guides to writing crime novels, narrates a family reunion at a snowed-in mountain resort where a body turns up on the first morning, and promises to play fair with the reader about who did it.
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
In 1979 the astrologer and amateur sleuth Kiyoshi Mitarai takes up a crime that has baffled Japan for forty years: an artist murdered in his locked studio in 1936, and the six young women of his family later found dismembered as his notebooks described.
The Westing Game
Sixteen heirs of the eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing are paired off and handed clues, and whoever solves the puzzle of his death will inherit his fortune.