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Nine Liars

by Maureen Johnson

A cold case crosses the Atlantic

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    New York Times bestselling author

    The source describes Maureen Johnson as a New York Times bestselling author.

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A cold case crosses the Atlantic

Stevie Bell’s senior year at Ellingham Academy brings questions about college and her long-distance relationship, but an invitation to study in London gives her a new case to investigate. The mystery reaches back to 1995, when a group of nine Cambridge University friends gathered at a country house and two were found murdered the next morning. The original burglary explanation is challenged by a survivor’s account, putting the remaining friends—and their conflicting versions of events—at the center of the inquiry. The book combines Stevie’s present-day investigation with a decades-old double murder, while setting that puzzle alongside her uncertainty about what comes after school.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young adult mystery readers interested in cold cases and detective investigations.
  • Readers who enjoy stories that connect a present-day inquiry with events from the 1990s.
  • Readers looking for a mystery that also includes questions about college, relationships, and the transition beyond school.

Themes

Cold-case investigationSecrets and conflicting accountsFriendship and trustCollege and the transition to adulthood

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Book overview

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.

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