IT’S TIME TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL
The Vanishing Stair picks up where Truly Devious left off. Stevie has made a major break in the Ellingham case. At the same time, a potential killer is on the loose at Ellingham Academy. Stevie finds herself having to make a deal with the devil to continue her investigative work.
Back in 1936, we meet some other players—two students, two dangerous lovers who also had a habit of being where they shouldn’t be. What did they see on the fateful night of the kidnapping?
In terms of dangerous lovers of the present…David Eastman, the handsome and troubled guy from upstairs, is proving to be even more trouble than Stevie could have anticipated. How can Stevie balance school, love, and investigating crimes? And is it possible that a series of crimes committed over eighty years ago could be related to a present-day murder?
Before it is all over, Stevie will crack the riddle that Albert Ellingham left on his desk on the day of his death:
Where do you look for someone who’s never really there?
Always on a staircase but never on a stair.
And someone else will die.
