That'll Teach Her: One dead headmistress. Four suspects. Only the parents’ chat group can solve the crime...

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Maz Evans

That'll Teach Her

One dead headmistress. Four suspects. Only the parents’ chat group can solve the crime

Maz Evans

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Headline
01 March 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense

A headmistress is dead. The circumstances are suspicious.

And as every parent knows, being on the school group chat can be murder...

'Fabulous' JANICE HALLETT

'Deliciously funny' MARTINA COLE

'Pure fun in book form, a laugh out loud murder mystery...a book you won't be able to put down!' C L MILLER

'Wickedly spit-out-your-tea funny...but also heartwarming' S. J. BENNETT

As educators go, Claudia Stitchwell makes Miss Hannigan look like Miss Honey.

But when the reviled headteacher drops dead in the school hall, a group of sceptical parents suspect the nut allergy explanation doesn't add up - they believe someone wanted to teach Miss Stitchwell a lesson.

Only four people could have killed Stitchwell: Hattie, the adored school cook; Kiera, the hard-working teaching assistant; Clive, the loathed school bursar and Ben, the popular deputy head. All of them are liars... but only one is the murderer.

Piecing together evidence from the daily drama and drudgery of the parents' group chat, local press, police reports, school newsletters, and good, old-fashioned gossip, the determined detective parents are doing their homework to crack the case.

Will you spot the clues? Can you deduce whodunnit? And for the love of all things holy, does anyone have this week's spellings?

'This witty mystery will please fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett' The i Paper

'Gorgeously warm, brilliantly witty...impossible to put down' LUCY MANGAN

'A hilarious whodunit filled with so much heart, and a cast characters you'll love to pieces but suspect of doing a murder all at once' KATE WESTON

'Brilliantly witty and suspenseful...a delightful blend of humour and mystery that kept me guessing until the end' JOANNA WALLACE

Praise for Maz Evans:

'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming.

I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT

'Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell.' S J BENNETT

'Warm, wacky and witty. I loved it!' SALLY PAGE

'A triumph' DAILY MIRROR

'Sometimes a book comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reading. ..an absolute joy!' WOMAN & HOME

'Splendidly offbeat whodunnit' DAILY EXPRESS

'Clever, wise and properly funny. An absolute triumph' LUCY MANGAN

By: Maz Evans
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781035413270
ISBN 10: 1035413272
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Maz Evans is the author of the bestselling WHO LET THE GODS OUT?, VI SPY and THE EXPLODING LIFE OF SCARLETT FIFE series, which have collectively sold to 22 countries worldwide and received over 20 award nominations, including the Carnegie Medal, Branford Boase, Books Are My Bag, Waterstones Children's Book of the Year and Indie Children's Book of the Year. Her acclaimed live events have featured at Hay, Imagine, Edinburgh, Bath, Cheltenham, Bestival, Wilderness and countless literary festivals around the UK.

Reviews for That'll Teach Her: One dead headmistress. Four suspects. Only the parents’ chat group can solve the crime

Praise for Maz Evans: Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down. * JANICE HALLETT * A very different take on a whodunnit. Warm, wacky and witty. I loved it! * SALLY PAGE * Clever, wise and properly funny. An absolute triumph * LUCY MANGAN * Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell. * S J BENNETT * Splendidly offbeat whodunnit....Evans knows how to make an unlikely plot seem entirely believable. * DAILY EXPRESS * A triumph...there are also moving moments amid the hilarity * DAILY MIRROR * Sometimes a book comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reading. Imaginative, witty and original...an absolute joy! * WOMAN & HOME * A really entertaining read that will appeal to fans of Richard Osman * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * Clever, multilayered and a joy! * WOMAN'S WEEKLY * Pure fun in book form, a laugh out loud murder mystery with great characters and a page turning plot. It's a book you won't be able to put down - especially if you belong to a parents WhatsApp group! * C L Miller * A hilarious whodunit filled with so much heart, and a cast characters you'll love to pieces but suspect of doing a murder all at once -- KATE WESTON Deliciously funny -- MARTINA COLE