Truly Devious

Summary: In the 1930s, wealthy businessman Albert Ellingham opened Ellingham Academy, a school for gifted students where learning was seen as a game and students were given a high degree of autonomy with regards to their education. Shortly after the school opened, Albert Ellingham’s wife and daughter were kidnapped. His wife was killed, his daughter never found, and the case never solved.

Now, decades later, Stevie Bell has been admitted to Ellingham Academy upon the basis of her interest in and thorough research into the case. She is determined to figure out what really happened all those years ago, and she continues digging into the case as soon as she arrives on Ellingham grounds, all while adjusting to her new school and forming bonds with her housemates. Then, to everyone’s shock, a death occurs on campus, and Stevie can’t help but wonder if it is somehow connected to the Ellingham case.