And When Stevie Finally Returns, She Also Returns To David: The Guy She Kissed, And The Guy Who Lied About His Identity-edward King’s Son. Even If It Means Making A Deal With The Despicable Senator Edward King. Stevie’s Willing To Do Anything To Get Back To Ellingham, Be Back With Her Friends, And Solve The Truly Devious Case.
She Must Move Past This Obsession With Crime. But Then Her Classmate Was Murdered, And Her Parents Quickly Pull Her Out Of School. It’s The Very Reason She Came To The Academy. The Truly Devious Case-an Unsolved Kidnapping And Triple Murder That Rocked Ellingham Academy In 1936-has Consumed Stevie For Years. No Answer Is Given Freely, And Someone Will Pay For The Truth With Their Life. Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook.In New York Times Bestselling Author Maureen Johnson’s Second Novel In The Truly Devious Series, There Are More Twists And Turns Than Stevie Bell Can Imagine. This article was originally published in the February 2019 issue of BookPage. Savvy sleuths will devour this sequel in one gulp, but they’ll have to wait until 2020 for the next installment.
Like the humorous and intellectually curious Stevie, Johnson is a true crime lover, and she dedicates this sequel “to all the murderinos” (fans of the popular “My Favorite Murder” podcast). Suspense and intrigue abound in The Vanishing Stair as Johnson illuminates suspects and teases out clues that will flummox even the most adept murder mystery aficionado. All the adults keep warning her away from investigating, but Stevie can’t resist a good mystery, and her murder obsession might get her killed. It’s not just several murders that Stevie is trying to puzzle out, but her social life as well. Fenton’s handsome nephew, who has some revelations of his own for Stevie. To further complicate matters, Stevie has made a deal with corrupt Senator Edward King to keep tabs on his son, David, the boy with whom she shares a burgeoning romance. Fenton-who wrote the book on the 1936 unsolved kidnappings of Academy founder Albert Ellingham’s wife and daughter-she makes a gruesome discovery that rattles the school once more. But when she gets an internship with the wacky Dr. Stevie promised school officials and her parents that she would refrain from inserting herself into any more real-life murder investigations and decades-old cold cases. The cleverly plotted, page-turning sequel to Maureen Johnson’s hit bestseller Truly Devious (2018) manages to outshine its predecessor as true crime aficionado Stevie Bell returns to posh private school Ellingham Academy and unearths even more confounding clues in her investigation of a classmate’s mysterious disappearance.
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