A Girl Called Justice: Book 1

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There was, of course, the stereotypical bully, horrible food, and midnight feasts, but that's what makes a good, fictional boarding school, and a good story! I'm so glad that she's writing this series, as I can share it with my ten-year-old granddaughter, who has enjoyed other young sleuth series.

The staff are mostly extremely forbidding, from the brusque Matron, the hearty and overbearing games teacher Miss Thomas, and Miss de Vere, the glamorous but commanding headmistress. The poor friend, rich awful girl, suspious character overlooked and the good person looked as a suspected ect) Nothing in this story did something good for it to stand out, one I will quickly forget. I appreciated everything about her and if I’d read this as a child I know I would have identified with her except I would have never felt that brave. Con su ambientación invernal me ha parecido ideal para esta época del año, y el internado en la Inglaterra de los años 30 (si no me equivoco), me ha hecho recordar a cuando leía Santa Clara y Torres de Malory de pequeña, así que ha tenido un alto componente nostálgico para mí. Selvfølgelig er dødsfaldet ikke naturligt og vores heltinde skal nok få opklaret hvad der er sket med den unge pige.The sentence I have chosen demonstrates Elly’s skill at conveying an impressive quantity of information with an economy of words. As with the nature of it being middle grade and the time setting, I feel the why of the mystery was a little simplified, but I really liked the whodunnit element.

No, not agreeing about murder, that is just too much, but I can imagine why this person broke, why this person may have gone to this path. In the tradition of Malory Towers, Hogwarts and Enid Blyton adventures, this is a school tale with a resourceful heroine to savour and wonderful period details. Justice's roommates are all from different backgrounds and have different personalities that I look forward to learning more about in subsequent books. This was a good adventure story and we will certainly try the sequel when it is published in May this year. Over her last few years at the school, Justice had made some great friends of her own and solved some tricky mysteries, where even murder was involved.Then, after a midnight feast in the barn, and a terrifying ghost-sighting in the garden, a girl disappears. It is a touching tribute to her late mother, that captures the era and atmosphere of a 1930s English boarding school so perfectly (or so I imagine! The forbidding gothic exterior of the school isn’t quite the welcome Justice would have liked but she is barely over the threshold before she hears of a suspicious death just the week before. The school is located on the edges of the Romney Marsh area of southeast England, a remote, isolated setting.

Take a handful of hidden notes, a dash of secret meetings, a light dusting of deaths and kidnappings, and a sprinkling of clues at just the right moments and you have the perfect ingredients for this arresting mystery. Justice is convinced that one of the teachers at the school is involved in the smuggling operation and sets out to find the evidence to prove it.

Helena was there in a dark tunnel in the night because she was meeting the French teacher, who she was in love with. The strained relationships with friends when a newcomer has to be accommodated are scenarios that many youngsters will experience in school and seeing these dilemmas played out in the story can provide comfort and a degree of guidance. The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. School is totally alien to her, with its arcane customs, and its delight in games that are more like gladiatorial contests, and almost universal worship of Helena Bliss, the head girl.