Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson - Truly Devious Series Book 5 - Young Adult - Hardback

Condition: Brand New. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9780063032651. Publisher: HarperCollins (Katherine Tegen Books). Age Range: 14+. Overview. Nine Liars is the fifth instalment in Maureen Johnson's bestselling Truly Devious series, following sharp-witted teen sleuth Stevie Bell as she trades Ellingham Academy for a summer abroad. When a decades-old double murder resurfaces, Stevie is drawn into a tangled web of secrets, lies, and a drunken game of hide-and-seek that ended in tragedy. Fans of twisty boarding-school mysteries will find another gripping, clue-packed case to unravel.. About the Book. Senior year isn't going to plan for Stevie Bell. Her boyfriend David is studying abroad in London, her friends are consumed by college applications, and with the Ellingham Academy cold case finally solved, Stevie feels adrift, with nothing left to distract her restless mind. Relief arrives when David invites her and her friends to join him abroad, where his new friend Izzy introduces Stevie to an irresistible cold case of her own: in 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University gathered at a country house for a drunken game of hide-and-seek. By morning, two of them were dead, murdered with an axe in the woodshed. Police ruled it a burglary gone wrong, but one of the surviving seven witnessed something that has never made sense — until now. Someone has been lying for nearly thirty years about what really happened that night. As Stevie digs deeper into the decades-old crime, she discovers t...