Girls and Schools

Shadowy Campus Mystery in “The Sixes”

I love a good school thriller, don't you? And  I love it even more when our protagonist is a professor,…

1 year ago

Latin, Classics, and Drowned Secrets in “The Lake of Dead Languages”

In The Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman, Jane Hudson has returned to her old boarding school as a…

2 years ago

Last Seen Wearing

Last Seen Wearing was written in the fifties, and set at a women's college in Massachusetts, a fictionalized Smith or…

2 years ago

Private School Secrets in “Madam”

You guys, this book. I was interested in Madam, by Phoebe Wynne, as soon as the publicist mentioned The Secret…

4 years ago

All Girls

All Girls, by Emily Layden, is an ensemble novel set in a girls boarding school in Connecticut. It's more a…

4 years ago

The Wilder Girls

In Wilder Girls, by Rory Power, an outbreak of a horrific Tox causes creepy mutations and makes a girl's school…

4 years ago

Beware That Girl

I've been reading a lot of thrillers recently, particularly the manipulation suspense in You Are Not Alone, Pretty Things, Confessions on…

4 years ago

Perennials

Perennials by Mandy Berman centers around a summer camp, and the format matches the setting. Stories are told in short,…

4 years ago

Good Girls Lie

Good Girls Lie is about the secrets of the privileged young women at the Goode Academy in rural Virginia.  This…

4 years ago

The Furies

I was so excited to receive a copy of The Furies! The story summary, about four private-school girls and the…

5 years ago