Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad
when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and
laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.
Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Her boyfriend David is
studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of
the century solved Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions
pinging around her brain?questions about college love and life in general. Relief comes when
David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad and his new friend Izzy
introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995 nine friends from Cambridge University
went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the
woodshed the next day murdered with an ax. The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong
but one of the remaining seven saw something she can't explain. This was no break-in. Someone's
lying about what happened in the woodshed. Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still
playing a deadly game.
