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The velvet knife

Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but even she can't figure out what happened with her boyfriend, David. What she needs is a distraction: a good old-fashioned murder. Stevie is much happier dealing with dead people. They're a lot less confu...

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Main Author: Johnson, Maureen, 1973- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2026.
Edition:First edtion.
Series:Johnson, Maureen, 1973- Truly devious series; 6
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Boarding school students > Young adult fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Young adult fiction.
Manipulative behavior > Young adult fiction.
Murder > Young adult fiction.
Teenage detectives > Young adult fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction > Young adult.
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Summary:Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but even she can't figure out what happened with her boyfriend, David. What she needs is a distraction: a good old-fashioned murder. Stevie is much happier dealing with dead people. They're a lot less confusing--they don't send cryptic texts and make out with other girls in British pubs. But then Stevie gets exactly what she wanted when a dead body turns up in the middle of a Manhattan apartment complex, and this one is . . .complicated. Caught in a web of messy alive-people feelings, Stevie finds herself questioning all human connection. Is magnetism only manipulation? Can you trust anyone? Does anyone realize that they're joining a cult--before it's too late? And are things with David really over?
Physical Description:394 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9780063256019
0063256010
Author Notes:Maureen Johnson is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many young adult novels, including the very murderous Shades of London series and the Stevie Bell mysteries: Truly Devious , The Vanishing Stair , The Hand on the Wall , and The Box in the Woods . She has also done collaborative works, such as Let It Snow with John Green and Lauren Myracle (now a movie on Netflix), and several books in the Shadowhunter universe with Cassandra Clare. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. For safety's sake, she lives in New York City; the vicar cannot reach her there.

Jay Cooper 's books don't normally include grisly murders, nefarious deeds, or corpses of any kind. He has written and/or illustrated more than twenty books for kids, including The Spy Next Door , The Pepper Party , and the Bots series, and has contributed work to the New York Times bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth. Currently he is illustrating a graphic novel entitled Super Atomic Wombat Girl . He's also a graphic designer of theatrical advertising, and has worked on more than a hundred Broadway musicals and plays (which have heaps of deaths).

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