Entertainment · Books & Arts · 8 hrs ago

Five campus mystery novels set in schools and universities

Five novels use schools and universities as settings for mysteries.

The list includes *Ace of Spades*, about two students at an elite private school targeted by an anonymous texter.

In *Society of Lies*, a woman returns to Princeton for a reunion and investigates her younger sister’s death.

Other books involve a secretive college, a death at a magical medical school and a university art course where a student turns up dead.

The stories range from high school to higher education and include secrets, clues and questions about who is responsible.

The list presents campus mysteries as a form of dark academia, a genre associated here with dramatic, often unsettling academic settings.

It recommends the novels as fall reading, but gives no news of real-world events or next steps.

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Book Riot · 8 hrs ago