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'Clever and twisty' Jackie Kabler 'I was absolutely hooked and on the edge of my seat (literally) the entire time I was listening to it. I’ve never been so unproductive listening to an audiobook'⭐⭐⭐⭐ An unmissable psychological dark academia thriller: Saltburn meets Lucy Clarke's The...

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.

Laufey Gísladóttir voelt zich nog altijd niet de oude na haar vorige avontuur. Haar pogingen om buiten het werk wat afleiding te zoeken lopen uit tot niets. Gelukkig gaat het werk voor haar beveiligingsbedrijf Islasec onverminderd door. Laufey en Niels worden door de directie van een dure internationale kostschool ingehuurd om de beveiliging in het gebouw op orde te krijgen. Terwijl Niels helpt om de digitale aanvallen op de website te stoppen, merkt Laufey al snel dat er op de Lochemse school vreemde zaken spelen.

The invitation to her school reunion couldn’t have come at a better time for Chloe Flynn. Divorced, broke and bored at work, she’s living a life her teenage self would hate. Turning the clock back fifteen years might be just what she needs to wipe the slate clean and start again. And then there’s the chance she’ll bump into Nathan Blake, the one she still regrets letting get away…

Lily Ellsworth--erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish--is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that...

When a long-serving Master at one of England's most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide. It soon becomes clear that senior members of staff are not all that they seem. As the school closes ranks, Skelgill realizes he is pitted against a sinister power struggle for control of its highly lucrative operation.

Handsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It’s known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham’s instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of a student? Could there even be a connection with the staff? It seems unthinkable. After all, DI Gilbert Markham’s girlfriend Olivia teaches English at the school. Markham’s team probes deeper, and the local community begins to turn against Markham. Somebody in a position of power is hiding appalling information.

In this "smart, irreverent secret history" novel, a high-school senior investigates the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, where she discovers the rot at the heart of the institution—and the truth about her own past along the way (Stewart O'Nan). Frankie is a good...

The distraught head of an elite boarding school hires Holmes and Watson to investigate the sensitive disappearance of the young heir of a local nobleman. Searching in the fields surrounding the school, they make a grisly discovery - the dead body of one of the boy’s teachers. Sensing the growing danger to the young boy and suspecting the interference of the duke’s secretary, Holmes and Watson question the duke himself, who reveals a shocking detail to them.

Als Mary erachter komt dat haar dochter Susan haar jongste kind niet van de crèche heeft opgehaald en ook de rest van de avond niets van zich laat horen, wordt ze ongerust. Susan houdt zielsveel van haar drie kinderen en zou ze nooit de rug toekeren. Nog diezelfde avond belt Mary de politie. Inspecteur Gina Harte denkt aanvankelijk aan een standaard vermissingszaak, maar als er aan de rand van het stadje Cleevesford een vermoorde man wordt gevonden, blijkt niets minder waar. Het slachtoffer heeft een connectie met Susan en de verlammende vraag rijst of zij het volgende slachtoffer zal zijn.

Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut. With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel’s boarding school. But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past. If he can… As Dixon digs deeper, the stakes have never been higher and a murder has never felt so personal.

One young woman’s summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in “this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that’s] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.”—People (Best Books of the Month) “I haven’t felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the...

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde–like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the “backbone of this great country.” “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is...

Após meses procurando trabalho, Harold Weld finalmente encontra um cargo na Lea House Academy. Mas há uma estranha exigência: o professor que aceitar o cargo deve ter um bom temperamento imperturbável. Harold aceita prontamente, mas fica bastante curioso quando descobre que os professores anteriores fugiram da escola tão rapidamente que nem sequer voltaram para buscar seus salários... Quais mistérios se escondem entre os muros dessa escola?