A Schooling in Murder draws you in slowly but surely into this compelling read that takes place at Monkshill Park School for Girls just after WW2.

One of the teachers has gone missing and has been replaced by a male tutor.

Little known to all Miss Warnock is deceased but her ghostly spirit (who perfectly narrates the story) is unsettled and determined to find out who pushed her to her death.

The secrets surrounding the school are many and the suspect list is large.

Andrew Taylor is a master of telling atmospheric tales and surprising the reader with a twist that you dont see coming.

I highly recommend A Schooling in Murder , it certainly is a book that will keep the lights on and the pages turning.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins Canada/Hemlock Press for the opportunity to read and review A Schooling in Murder.

I thought this was a great historical mystery. I enjoyed the ghost narrator and the setting of a girls' boarding school forced to wait out the war in a crumbling mansion far away from the London Blitz. The shift in the school's curriculum—from traditionally feminine subjects like Art and Embroidery to more academic ones like Latin and Mathematics—was particularly interesting. Taylor set the tone well for this slow-burning mystery —it feels authentically 1940s. Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins Canada for this ARC.