That is, until the night she meets Jaewoo. Jenny didn’t get to be an award-winning, classically trained cellist without choosing practice over fun.
The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.Īn elite music academy sounds great already, but factor in the chance to study alongside your favorite K-Pop idols and fall in love with one of them? Sign us the heck up. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy.
That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history. Shortly after the school opened, the founder’s wife and daughter were kidnapped. Set in a millionaire’s mansion built in the 1930s that boasts secret passages, hidden tunnels, and mysteries galore, we’d definitely risk the curiously high student mortality rate for a chance to explore Ellingham Academy.Įllingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. We’d gladly pack our bags and enroll at any of the nineteen boarding schools featured in our list below! And even the most seemingly ordinary of boarding schools take drama, romance, and mystery to the next level. What’s not to love about boarding school? Unbelievable settings? Learning fantastic things like harnessing magical powers or expert-level assassin skills? We love it all. If you (like us) spent your childhood waiting to be whisked away from your ordinary life to an elite boarding school somewhere, then you (like us) are probably always game for a good boarding school story.