Nine Liars

Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious; and now she’s taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson. Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend; David; is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved; Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college; love; and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad; and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995; nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day; murdered with an ax. The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong; but one of the remaining seven saw something she can’t explain. This was no break-in. Someone’s lying about what happened in the woodshed. Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.