Truly Devious Paperback

Maureen Johnson's "Truly Devious" plunges readers into the enigmatic world of Ellingham Academy, a prestigious Vermont boarding school founded by a twentieth-century tycoon who envisioned it as a "wonderful place full of riddles." Its legacy, however, is marred by the infamous unsolved kidnapping of his wife and daughter in 1936, a crime marked only by a cryptic, mocking riddle signed "Truly, Devious." Decades later, true-crime aficionado Stevie Bell arrives at Ellingham with an ambitious plan: to crack the cold case. But as Stevie navigates the eccentricities of her new school and its equally unique inhabitants, the past seems to crawl out of its grave, as "Truly Devious" appears to return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy, intertwining the historical mystery with a chilling new one.