EBOOK Well-Schooled in Murder

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad&'s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a childand then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers&'s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew&'s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional woundsand blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....From the Paperback edition.