The Property of Lies

A body is discovered at Maxstead Court School for Girls and DI Reardon investigates. He finds the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets and schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it is clear that the victim was not who she claimed to be and Reardon is convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the truth.

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DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls' boarding school.

1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty.

As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who - or what - she claimed to be. Who was she really - and why is Reardon convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the whole truth?

Then a pupil goes missing - and the case takes a disturbing new twist .