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Truly Devious

by Maureen Johnson
Published
16 January 2018
Pages
432
ISBN-13
9780062338075
Type
novel
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About this book

Maureen Johnson launched Truly Devious in January 2018, a 432-page series opener that introduced the story continued the following year in The Vanishing Stair.

Key facts about Truly Devious

Maureen Johnson wrote Truly Devious, a novel on our list. It has been out since 16 January 2018. The book has 432 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062338075 to find the main one.

Truly Devious is book 1 of 6 in the Truly Devious series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Velvet Knife is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 29 September 2026.

Additionally, Maureen Johnson writes 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett and Shades of London, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our young adult, fantasy and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Velvet Knife is the latest published Maureen Johnson book on file, from 29 September 2026.

About Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is an American young adult author known for novels including 13 Little Blue Envelopes and the Truly Devious mystery series, as well as her contributions to the Shadowhunter short fiction anthologies within Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles universe. See every Maureen Johnson book in order.

Its place in Truly Devious

Truly Devious is book 1 in the Truly Devious series. It is followed by The Vanishing Stair. 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…

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