{"product_id":"9780008494285","title":"A Schooling in Murder - Andrew Taylor (Paperback) 26-02-2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e*A Times Best Book of the Year*           From the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII                        'Ten out of ten' The Times                                     'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON                                     'A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful, haunting, and quite brilliant' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON                                     'As good as I'd expect from a master of the craft' VAL MCDERMID                                     'A wonderful, subtle novel, set in a strange, enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending' ANN CLEEVES                        __________                          England, May 1945                        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 there is a real-life mystery waiting to be solved... and these echoing halls hide a killer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Andrew Taylor \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 26-02-2026","offer_id":56396994806140,"sku":"9780008494285","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9780008494285.jpg?v=1771954100","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9780008494285","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}