First in a series and this book only solves one mystery while leaving lots of questions, So, yeah, I'm going to have to read the rest. But that's okay, because I really enjoyed reading it. It's teen novel. The protagonist and main characters/victims/suspects are all high school students at an elite boarding school. There is plenty of the usual angst and drama and sense of not fitting and desperate need to belong and so on -- but too much. Enough to remind me, as an adult, why I would never ever want to be that age again. The protagonist is smart -- not just educated and well-read, but intelligent, probably a lot more so than the investigator in many adult mysteries. She makes mistakes, but you understand why she makes those mistakes. Yes, that's probably what I would have done her place. The plot: there's a kidnapping that leads to murder at a prestigious, radical new school in the 1930s. A man is ultimate convicted (shot on the courthouse steps before he can be executed), but he was a very obvious scapegoat. Present day and the school is still open and the old plot still unsolved. Stevie wants away from her very political parents and to solve the Elligham mystery. She applies to Elligham School and is accepted. Only a few weeks into the semester and a classmate dies. Accident or murder? True-crime fan Stevie has all of the answers in her brain; she just has to organize her facts and set up her Poirot style drawing room scene. This is a thicker book, but it moves fast. You're half-way through before you realize it.