Recension av Truly Devious

Författare: Maureen Johnson
Antal sidor: 416
Serie: Truly Devious, bok 1
Finns hos: Adlibris / Bokus

Goodreads beskrivning
 Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. "A place" he said, "where learning is a game."

Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym, Truly Devious. It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.

True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.

Mina åsikter
Jag brukar för det mesta inte vara så mycket för YA mysterium-böcker men den här gången tycker jag faktiskt att det fungerar. Boken är välskriven och är därtill uppbyggd utav utförliga person-och miljöbeskrivningar. Jag gillar det faktum att vi får följa fallet i såväl nutid som i dåtid med hjälp av diverse återblickar, det ger en mer fyllig berättelse. Jag måste dock erkänna att jag stundtals tappade intresset något, men i det stora hela var det en välskriven och spännande bok.

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