Hey guys! Adventure Van here with a report on Truly Devious, the mystery book Maureen Johnson wrote. It follows Stevie, a true-crime self proclaimed "detective", going to Ellingham Academy to solve the cold case mystery of what happened to the founder's family and themselves. Although the mystery itself is not solved in this book alone, it is a three book series. There are some interesting deaths and a decent mystery here, however, there is also a very questionable romantic subplot at play that I can't say I was a fan of. The flashbacks to while the crime was still ongoing are well dispersed across the book and don't hold up the flow, although the first death in the very first part of the book felt almost gratuitous and almost threw me off the entire reading. Still, if you're into school mysteries, this is one of the more well thought out variants.
Adventure Van, investigating.
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