Here are a couple of the books I've read recently. Coincidentally, both are set in boarding schools. "Last to Die" by Tess Gerritsen, features Rizzoli and Isles, the detective and the doctor. It revolves around a series of murders in which children are orphaned when their families are killed. The children are taken to a secret school, a former castle located deep inside a forest, where they will hopefully be kept safe. It's a fast paced, easy, suspenseful book, though perhaps not as good as some of Gerritsen's other novels.
I picked up Helen McCloy's "Through a Glass Darkly" at the British Library's crime exhibition a few months ago, along with two others from the Arcturus Crime Classics series. The mystery takes place in a girl's boarding school, where a young teacher, Faustina Coyle, is forced to resign when she seems to be the catalyst for several strange, inexplicable occurrences. Her friend, Gisela asks her fiance, Basil Willing, to investigate.
I really enjoyed this. It's a psychological suspense novel, but what I especially liked was the way it explored some of the weird, unexplained aspects of the subject, and the disturbing, creepy atmosphere of the book. It's a shame there's not much more of Helen McCloy's work available.
Love the retro, sort of Pop Arty cover!
