Hardcover, 373 pages
English language
Published Feb. 7, 2019 by Katherine Tegen Books.
WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER REALLY THERE?
The Truly Devious case--an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1916--has consumed Stevie Bell for years. It's the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate Hayed Major was murdered, and though she identified his killer, her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say.
Stevie's willingness to do anything to get back to Ellingham, be with her friends, and solve the case. Even if it means making a deal with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie finally returns, she also returns to David: the guy she kissed, the guy she's conflicted about at all times,and the guy who lied about his identity--Edward King's son. But larger issues are at play. Was Hayes's death really solved? Where did his murderer hide away to? What's the …
WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER REALLY THERE?
The Truly Devious case--an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1916--has consumed Stevie Bell for years. It's the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate Hayed Major was murdered, and though she identified his killer, her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say.
Stevie's willingness to do anything to get back to Ellingham, be with her friends, and solve the case. Even if it means making a deal with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie finally returns, she also returns to David: the guy she kissed, the guy she's conflicted about at all times,and the guy who lied about his identity--Edward King's son. But larger issues are at play. Was Hayes's death really solved? Where did his murderer hide away to? What's the meaning of the riddle Albert Ellingham left behind? And what, exactly, is at stake in the Truly Devious affair?
The Ellingham case isn't just a piece of history--it's a live wire into the present. The path to the truth has more twists and turns than Stevie can imagine, and moving forward involves hurting someone she cares for. In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson's second novel in the truly devious series, someone will pay for the truth with their life.
This description comes from the publisher. The Vanishing Stair is the second book in the Truly Devious series, the first of which is Truly Devious.
A very quick read, a good mystery and characters, not too deep or anything but oh well not everything has to be profund^^
Truly Devious is a very good YA murder mystery, its :
-entertaining (read quickly)
-not REALLY scary lol
-has teenagers in an isolated school, a good setting ahah
-and I liked the variety in characters
There is a mystery in the past around the founder of Ellingham Academy, and in the present day we follow Stevie, a high school girl, feeling she didn't really belong in "normal" schools until she found Ellingham Academy, where her love of studying true crime will thrive with the Ellingham cold case...
A delightful page-turner by one of my favorite YA writers. The cliffhanger ending has me DYING for the next in the series!
