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Destination: Dublin Departure Time: 2000s
A student hast been found murdered in the grounds of a school. A sign on the notice board says ‘ I know who killed him’ . A closed community style thriller
A Secret Place
What you need to know before your trail
A sign on the school notice board says ‘I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM’. This is the secret place – a board where the girls in the boarding school can pin their deepest and darkest secrets. Holly finds the card and takes it to Detective Stephen Moran. she knows him since she as a nine year old witness to an event in Faithfull place. She now attends a prestigious school ( the fictional St Kilda’s) where she has found the note and has a story to tell him.
The story is about Christopher Harper, a student from the neighbouring boys’ school, was found murdered on the grounds.
Travel Guide
Fictional St Kilda’s college, Dublin
With the action taking place over one day and in a school, this is quite a closed set kind of book making the mystery and claustrophobic feeling of the crime all the more realistic. The school is at first reluctant to have the detectives back on site so to speak and students are equally as reluctant to talk.
A dual time line takes you back to the year before Chris Harper’s death and the build up to what he did and how he lived before his murder. A bit ‘Chronicle of a death foretold’ but in an irish boarding school.
Just what goes on in a boarding school full of girls? What mischief lurks or could it be something worse? some very dark moments and you may not want to go inside a boarding school after this.
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