There's a murderer on the loose—but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce.
The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home—unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong.
Julie Berry's The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place is a smart, hilarious Victorian romp, full of outrageous plot twists, mistaken identities, and mysterious happenings.
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“Readers with a penchant for dark humor will relish Berry’s tongue-in-cheek murder mystery set in a
late-nineteenth-century British girls’ boarding school…The pupils’ attempts to convince the public that everything is normal at
the school make for some hilarious scenes, and their efforts to find
the murderer result in surprising encounters with suspicious (but often
quite appealing) suspects. Romance blooms in unexpected places, and
danger lurks around every corner in this delightfully farcical tale,
full of twists and turns.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)