#ellingham academy

[justablujay]

The way that i would sell my soul to be able to go to a boarding school for free and study what i’m interested in. My dream life

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aroace nate fisher rb if you agree

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[izzielizzie]

“The brick and stone buildings were like something from a story”

Ellingham Academy Moodboard

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YA Mystery Appreciation Post

Truly Devious & The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

So I’m a sucker for a good mystery; I love the character development-within-archetypes, the quick plotting, the twists and turns (I’m terrible at predicting as a reader, so I’m always surprised), the red herring(s), the allusions to other famous mysteries and detectives, and the unique locations.

And these two had it all! I absolutely loved the worldbuilding of Ellingham Academy. It was unique, interesting and well-described. The history and detail of the place was integrated seamlessly into the narrative. The cast of characters were interesting, diverse, mysterious and fit their archetypes well. I loved Stevie, the MC, with her focus and aloofness and anxiety. I could really relate to how her brain worked and her conflicting motivations. Nate and Janelle are worthy BFFs, as is David as a love interest. Did he do it or does he have his own issues??? Only the third book will tell. I also loved the alternating timelines. It was so satisfying as a reader to see the mystery that Stevie is trying to solve unfold.

I read these two in two days. Thank you, snow days!

Side note: These books are what I wished A Study in Charlotte were.

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Don't miss out on these mysteries from the young adult section!

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - "The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. Almost everyone. Having grown up in the small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Adeleke chooses the case as the topic for her final project. But when Pip starts uncovering secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden, what starts out as a project begins to become Pip's dangerous reality..."

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro - "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery."

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus - "When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates--including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete--are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings."

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - "Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive."

Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson - "Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. 'A place,' he said, 'where learning is a game.'"

#ya mystery #truly devious #one of us is lying

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💬 Do you consider yourself good at solving mysteries? 🔎 Today I’m sharing Nine Liars by @maureenjohnsonbooks, book 5 in the Truly Devious series! Have you read this series yet? Is it on your TBR? 🤎📖 Thank you to @epicreads for sending me a copy of the book. . . . s u m m a r y : 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. . . . h a s h t a g s : #NineLiars #MaureenJohnson #Epicreads #mysterybooks #yathriller #youngadultbooks #yabooks #booksbooksbooks #alwaysreading #flatlaystyle #bookishflatlay #bookphoto #bookphotographer #readersofinsta https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPkFkeutDV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Rating: 2/5

 Book Blurb: 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.

Review:

Stevie Bell is taking her detective skills international as she spends a week in England with her boyfriend and friends while also tackling a mysterious unsolved murder case surrounding a group of friends. Stevie Bell’s boyfriend David is studying in England and invites her to come visit him for a week under the guise of studying abroad. Stevie has been struggling to figure out what she’s going to do with her life after she’s finished school, in fact, just doing apps is having her struggling. She misses her boyfriend terribly and so when he suggests this, this is the perfect opportunity to get her mind off things. Yet when she gets there she meets his friend Izzy who begs her to help her solve her aunt’s mystery. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University go to a country house and play a drunken game of hide-and-seek... and two of them were found murdered in the woodshed the next day. Nobody knows who did it, and its been left as a cold case ever since. But Izzy’s Aunt, one of the friends, is determined to solve it and Izzy thinks Stevie is the perfect person to crack the case. Yet while she is consumed by this case Stevie is also having issues with her boyfriend David ( let me maintain this, I have always disliked David, every book I hope Stevie finally see’s what we all see and just DUMP HIM AND MOVE ON. I never liked him in the previous books but this book just highlights Stevie’s strange fixation on David, and the guy really does do NOTHING to deserve it and he really is the blandest guy ever. With the way he treated her in the previous books i was so over him and was hoping maybe this time he’ll finally just go cuz seriously Stevie, you can do better, just because he’s cute doesn’t mean he’s a good fit for you seriously I would rather you just be single and focus on solving cases than be constantly mooning on and on about how great you think he is when he does absolutely nothing. MORE TO COME IN THE SPOILERS). So while Stevie is trying to break down this case she is beginning to realize that the Nine all have their own secrets and that they are definitely lying.... and that one of them is the murderer. I had fun with the mystery it was the relationship stuff with David that dragged this book for me. The mystery itself was a fun one to read but I honestly wished there was more tension or building, and that it focused on the relationship between the Nine rather than Stevie and David relationship drama. With the way the book ends, there is definitely another book coming... but honestly I don’t now if I’ll be reading it. If you’re looking for good young adult mysteries with some romance check out the books by Karen M. McManus.

SPOILERS ( The book ends with David dumping Stevie out of nowhere and Stevie spent the entire book jealous of Izzy and David does nothing really to act like a good boyfriend or even act like a boyfriend seriously, your girlfriend comes all this way to visit you, wouldn’t you want to spend time solving a case with her??? and then when Izzy tells Stevie David dumped her because he felt like he was going to lose her and that he wasn’t good enough for and is now drinking and moping in a bar, Stevie goes to him only to find him kissing someone else. Is anyone else surprised? I certainly am not. IM BEGGING YOU PLEASE JUST LET STEVIE HAVE A DECENT LOVE INTEREST, I DONT WANT OR NEED DAVID ANYMORE, PLEASE JUST LET HIM STAY IN ENGLAND PLEASE DROP THIS RELATIONSHIP). 

*Thanks Netgalley and HarperCollins Children's Books, Katherine Tegen Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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[cattatonically]

The Hand on the Wall - Maureen Johnson (Truly Devious, book 3) 

Synopsis

Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .

She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century.

At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it’s hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow—somehow—all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.

Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated. Obviously, it’s time for Stevie to do something stupid. It’s time to stay on the mountain and face the storm—and a murderer.

In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who’ve walked through Ellingham Academy.

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years.

My Thoughts

This book seems to pull everything together. But holy toledo, was it an adventure getting there.

Over the course of the last three books, one of the things that I love loved most has been the friendship between Stevie and Nate. I haven’t spoken much about it, but truly, they understand each other on a very deep level, even if on the surface it doesn’t appear that way. And that’s a friendship, I believe, that will last.

And honestly, I don’t think I’ve spoken enough about Stevie, and her relationships in these books. She truly cares about her friends. She is usually very practical, analytical, and logical. But people don’t fit into molds, or patterns, like crimes do – which are her passion. People confound her, and she tries hard to understand her friends, and support the things that make her happy.

In the beginning, it was implied that she would be closest to Janelle – a very gregarious, outgoing, brilliant young engineer. But watching her grow closer to Nate, the recluse writer, and understand the things about him that make him happy, the more I grew to appreciate that she does this with all of her friends.

Stevie may not be the most socially active person on the campus – something I definitely relate to (I am having flashbacks of reading in the corner of the music room during lunch because it was the leas populated area at my high school). But she tries. And honestly, props for that.

As far as the mystery goes – that in itself was a wild ride and a half.

We’ve been teased and tormented over the course of three books about the 1936 Ellingham mystery, as well as the present day murders occurring in the same location. The answers were slowly trickled out in a way I truly didn’t see coming. Though I really should have.

Despite the ups and downs – at one point I thought there was another cliffhanger, and nearly lost my mind, making enough distressed noises to disturb my cat – everything really did fall together rather cleverly.

Looking back – the pieces are there. But it really isn’t until you have the whole scene that it really clicks. And I love that about these books. With some, it all comes together immediately, and you’re waiting for the characters to catch up. I really didn’t feel that with this series.

And while this story feels complete, I know that there are more books to come. However, I think I’m going to take a pause, and come back to these at another time. I love this series, but I don’t want to burn out on it. I’ll come back, with fresh eyes, and a fresh mind, to see what Stevie gets up to next.

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The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

I was so excited when I heard there was going to be a fourth Truly Devious book. I needed more of Stevie and her rag-tag group of friends and their mystery solving. This time, it is summer break and Stevie is asked to solve a murder mystery at a summer camp. Of course, our Stevie can't resist a chance to solve a decades-old murder, and she gets to bring her friends. It was interesting to see a new mystery at a new location. As much as I loved Ellingham Academy, we needed a new location and a new mystery to liven up the series. This book showed that the series can stand on its own without the original mystery involved. I hope there are more Truly Devious books for years to come.

#Truly Devious #maureen johnson #the box in the woods #ya murder mystery #awesome read

[the-liliger]

Review and Spoiler - #20

Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author, creates a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, excellent for fans of E. Lockhart and Agatha Christie.

Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest artists, inventors, and thinkers. It was founded by an early twentieth-century industrialist, Albert Ellingham, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.” Shortly after he opened the school, his wife and young daughter were kidnapped. The only clue left behind is a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed off with the well-chosen, pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” Many years later, true-crime aficionado Stevie Bell begins her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she ambitiously plans to solve the case.

Spoiler: Is the case or the mastermind behind the tragedy as dead as everyone likes to believe?

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✨Sort Of Slice Of Life YA Books✨

THE HAND IN THE WALL

By: Maureen Johnson

"Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .

She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century.

At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it’s hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow—somehow—all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.

Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated. Obviously, it’s time for Stevie to do something stupid. It’s time to stay on the mountain and face the storm—and a murderer."

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Review: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Review: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Truly Devious by Maureen JohnsonYoung Adult | MysterySeries: Truly Devious #1Published by: Katherine Tegen BooksRelease date: 16/01/2018Length: 416Rating: ★★★☆☆Goodreads | Waterstones | Publisher Synopsis:Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to…

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 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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 Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. ?A place,? he said, ?where learning is a game.?Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. 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.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. 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. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham

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Truly Devious is the first book in a buzzy series from Maureen Johnson. “Stevie Bell loves True Crime. She heads to Ellingham Academy hoping to solve a famous cold case. In the 30s, the founder’s wife and daughter were kidnapped. Ransom was paid but they were never returned. Stevie hopes to find the answer but now death has visited the campus again.” Stevie is a great character. Her observations and comments are hilarious. This is a dual timeline story going back and forth between the present and the events surrounding the kidnapping. Johnson has an easy-to-read writing style with great pace. My only issue with this book is that there is no resolution on most of the story and multiple cliffhangers. 😩 Not a fan of that. On to the next one. Have you read this series? #trulydevious #maureenjohnson #ya #youngadult #youngadultthriller #youngadultcrimefiction #bookstagram #bookshelves #booknerd #readinglife #bookwormlife #sodacityreads #bookworm #suspensebook #bookhaul #literarycrimefiction #homelibrary #thrillerbooks #domesticthriller #crimefiction #thriller #characterdrivenbooks #mysterythriller #bookrecs https://www.instagram.com/p/Chw6nIhrwuB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie?s greatest triumph . . .She knows who Truly Devious is. She?s solved it. The greatest case of the century.At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it?s hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow?somehow?all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated.