"The dead don't lie, but the Living often do, Little Thief."
Ridgewood Academy was supposed to be a fresh start for Ivy-a chance to blend into the crowd and leave her past behind. But her quiet plan is shattered when she meets Stella, the girl no one likes and everyone avoids. Against her better judgment, Ivy tries to befriend her.
A week later, Stella is dead.
The school moves on, brushing her death aside as just another tragedy. But when Ivy finds Stella's diary stuffed under a desk-filled with desperate, haunting words like "It wasn't my fault. Help me!"-she knows something isn't right.
With the reluctant help of Aiden, Stella's best friend and the only person who cared about her, Ivy digs deeper. What they uncover points to someone no one would ever suspect: a teacher who seems perfect but hides a twisted, dangerous game behind his kind smile.
As Ivy and Aiden inch closer to the truth, anonymous notes start appearing-guiding them, warning them, and sometimes pushing them too far. Each clue brings them closer to uncovering a secret that's darker than anything Ivy imagined.
Stella's story might not have ended the way everyone thinks it did. But Ivy's might-if she isn't careful.
In a school full of lies, the truth is the most dangerous thing of all.
Frankenstein's Guide (Book 1, the LiteraTours Cozy Mystery Series)
59 Partes Concluida
59 Partes
Concluida
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Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists.
Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats.
With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists.
To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . .
"Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series".
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