The Velvet Knife

Its place in Truly Devious

The Velvet Knife is book 6 in the Truly Devious series. It follows Nine Liars. See the full Truly Devious reading order.

Stevie Bell has one obsession: true crime, and specifically the unsolved 1936 kidnapping and murder case that has haunted Ellingham Academy, an eccentric Vermont boarding school for gifted teenagers, since its founding. When Stevie talks her way into an actual place at Ellingham, she gets more than she bargained for -- within her first term, a fellow student turns up dead in circumstances that echo the decades-old case eerily closely, and Stevie realizes the school's original murderer, known only by the taunting…