Thea Kozak Learns School's Dark Secrets In An Educated Death Summary

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Thea Kozak Learns School's Dark Secrets in An Educated Death by Kate Flora

New England, USA

When a student is found drowned in the campus pond of a prestigious New England boarding school, Thea Kozak is called in for crisis management. Cooperation abounds until Thea discovers that the young victim was pregnant and the death may not have been an accident. Then administration and students turn tight-lipped. When Thea digs deeper, she unearths a host of nasty secrets beneath the school’s genteel facade.

Now everyone wants her gone, everyone except the killer who has a very different fate in mind for Thea Kozak.

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