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.