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Kendra Clayton Mystery #4
Schooled in Lies
A deadly reunion committee. A desperate killer. And a teacher sleuth searching for the truth.
Kendra Clayton's high school days were nothing to brag about. So, she's not thrilled when she gets roped into serving on her high school's reunion committee. To make matters worse, Kendra and the other committee members start receiving strange messages and having freak accidents resulting in death. Kendra's convinced it's murder. Unfortunately, neither the reunion committee nor the police takes her seriously.
To try and prevent another death, Kendra digs into the lives of her fellow committee members and uncovers enough secrets, lies, and betrayal to make her head spin. When a second murder occurs, Kendra realizes she needs to watch her back in her search for the truth before a killer turns her into another buried secret.
Schooled In Lies is the fourth book in the Kendra Clayton mystery series. Click the buy button and join the legions of fans of this quirky, laugh-out-loud series that Library Journal called "Highly recommended."
"With Schooled In Lies, gifted novelist Angela Henry keeps fans up on the intrepid doings of her delightfully intrepid, more-lives-than-a-cat sleuth..."
--Dwight Hobbes
Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, MN Spokesman-Recorder
"I would really recommend this book for everyone who wants a book that you can't put down and pulls you to the edge of your chair."
--Marjolein Balm
marjoleinbookblog.blogspot.com
"...Schooled in Lies is a fast-paced mystery that I did enjoy..."
--Dorothy Thompson
Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner
Kendra Clayton's high school days were nothing to brag about. So, she's not thrilled when she gets roped into serving on her high school's reunion committee. To make matters worse, Kendra and the other committee members start receiving strange messages and having freak accidents resulting in death. Kendra's convinced it's murder. Unfortunately, neither the reunion committee nor the police takes her seriously.
To try and prevent another death, Kendra digs into the lives of her fellow committee members and uncovers enough secrets, lies, and betrayal to make her head spin. When a second murder occurs, Kendra realizes she needs to watch her back in her search for the truth before a killer turns her into another buried secret.
Schooled In Lies is the fourth book in the Kendra Clayton mystery series. Click the buy button and join the legions of fans of this quirky, laugh-out-loud series that Library Journal called "Highly recommended."
"With Schooled In Lies, gifted novelist Angela Henry keeps fans up on the intrepid doings of her delightfully intrepid, more-lives-than-a-cat sleuth..."
--Dwight Hobbes
Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, MN Spokesman-Recorder
"I would really recommend this book for everyone who wants a book that you can't put down and pulls you to the edge of your chair."
--Marjolein Balm
marjoleinbookblog.blogspot.com
"...Schooled in Lies is a fast-paced mystery that I did enjoy..."
--Dorothy Thompson
Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner
286 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 31, 2009
About the author
Angela Henry
36 books367 followersAngela Henry is an Amazon Charts bestselling and award-winning author of twisty mysteries, thrillers, and urban fantasy. A retired library reference specialist, she’s the author of the Kendra Clayton mystery series and the Xavier Knight series, as well as the thrillers The Perfect Affair, Her Pretty Lies, The Family Lies, and The Paris Secret. She also writes middle-grade fiction as Angie Kelly. Angela lives in Ohio with her husband and their spoiled Chiweenie, Gidget.
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December 10, 2010
A really great book shows us how everything is great and worth to die for
August 30, 2026
Kendra is up to her antics yet again. if she could mind her own business she would stay out of trouble.However if you have read up this far in the series you know she can not.
I rated it only a 3 because it is a different story with the same antics. However I am committed to reading this series to the end if i can get a hold of the books.
It is now time for the HS reunion and the cool kids plus 2 outcast Kendra and another, are on the committee. Someone is targeting the committee to bribe them to keep their secrets. All so the Committee Advisor, can escape a soon to be released prisoner that she sent to jail. Kendra finds out that the name they all know her as is an assumed identity. She has been living in secrecy out in public.
She had a man, then she lost a man.
The boyfriend Carl, is in and out of the this book away on business. He proposes by way of ultimatum, which is not at all appealing. The he re-proposes after giving her some tim to think on it. Let's just say it was not ideal. He comes around the house unsuspectingly, and finds Kendra off on a a date that she was conned into with the throwback from the pimpin' 70's.
I rated it only a 3 because it is a different story with the same antics. However I am committed to reading this series to the end if i can get a hold of the books.
It is now time for the HS reunion and the cool kids plus 2 outcast Kendra and another, are on the committee. Someone is targeting the committee to bribe them to keep their secrets. All so the Committee Advisor, can escape a soon to be released prisoner that she sent to jail. Kendra finds out that the name they all know her as is an assumed identity. She has been living in secrecy out in public.
She had a man, then she lost a man.
The boyfriend Carl, is in and out of the this book away on business. He proposes by way of ultimatum, which is not at all appealing. The he re-proposes after giving her some tim to think on it. Let's just say it was not ideal. He comes around the house unsuspectingly, and finds Kendra off on a a date that she was conned into with the throwback from the pimpin' 70's.
June 27, 2019
I enjoyed this book and I'm becoming as much of a fan of Kendra Clayton's character as I am of this author's writing style. I enjoyed the realistic, witty, yet suspenseful writing style and I'll be looking for more books from this author as I think this is my 3rd or 4th book from her.
May 6, 2019
Great Read!
I finally completed the series, it was a great read! That Kendra Clayton has more lives than Ms Carson's cat, Mahalia!
I finally completed the series, it was a great read! That Kendra Clayton has more lives than Ms Carson's cat, Mahalia!
January 27, 2012
This is a good story and written by a terrific, imaginative writer. But the formatting is a mess with block paragraphs in the body between indented paragraphs, and there are terrible, silly spelling/comprehension errors (the word you are looking for is "conscience," not "conscious" -- the first is a noun and the second is an adjective).
The characters are engaging, the dialogue interesting and the plot not terribly obvious. I would have given more stars, if only the book had been formatted correctly and proofread. This looked like a vanity press book, when it was entirely publishable through regular means. It wasn't in desperate need of an editor (though an editor might have fixed the prologue/epilogue problem, which seems to be a standard issue in self-published fiction from what I've read so far), but a proofreader would have been a great help.
Maybe it's mean to pick on something as minor as proofreading, but if you pulled a book off the bookstore shelf, read a few lines and noted that a character's "conscious was bothered," would you pay money for the book? Or you noticed that the author thinks the tummy medicine is Pepto Bismo, not Pepto Bismol? Or that a financial advisor calls the retirement plan a "four hundred one K"?
Professionalism is important. Errors detract from that. It makes me sad, because this is a fun, engaging mystery and I wanted to stay rooted in it, not be knocked out by a non-word like "distain." ("Disdain." The word is "disdain.")
The characters are engaging, the dialogue interesting and the plot not terribly obvious. I would have given more stars, if only the book had been formatted correctly and proofread. This looked like a vanity press book, when it was entirely publishable through regular means. It wasn't in desperate need of an editor (though an editor might have fixed the prologue/epilogue problem, which seems to be a standard issue in self-published fiction from what I've read so far), but a proofreader would have been a great help.
Maybe it's mean to pick on something as minor as proofreading, but if you pulled a book off the bookstore shelf, read a few lines and noted that a character's "conscious was bothered," would you pay money for the book? Or you noticed that the author thinks the tummy medicine is Pepto Bismo, not Pepto Bismol? Or that a financial advisor calls the retirement plan a "four hundred one K"?
Professionalism is important. Errors detract from that. It makes me sad, because this is a fun, engaging mystery and I wanted to stay rooted in it, not be knocked out by a non-word like "distain." ("Disdain." The word is "disdain.")
December 1, 2012
I enjoyed this book very much. I didn't think I would get into a "traditional" mystery but I enjoyed how Henry kept the reader guessing. This book is fourth in a series about the protagonist, Kendra Clayton, but I have not read the first three books. However, it appears each title is a stand alone. I liked Kendra's character because she is an ordinary woman, dealing with her love life, and visiting her mother's house for dessert when something is on her mind, but what makes her story worth telling is her curiosity about who done it. I would highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy mystery, and also readers who are looking for a title by an African American author.
February 1, 2010
Kendra wasn't popular in High School so when she gets roped into serving on the reunion committee she is not happy about it. Member of the committee start getting strange messages and having accidents but Kendra thinks that one accident is really a murder. She has to convince others and do some investigating before she is the next victim. Pretty good mystery and it was an interesting read.
February 2, 2010
Schooled In Lies is a delightful and witty modern cozy mystery. The 4th in the Kendra Clayton mystery series. Schooled in lies makes for a delightful afternoon of reading.
October 4, 2011
Going back to her high school reunion is not high on Kendra's list. This mystery has loads of drama and comedy, which will keep you turning the pages.
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November 7, 2012
Good beach read.
August 19, 2013
Hard to read a book based in 1997 but it has far too many references to technology that just wasn't there in 97. Like cell phones and laptops. These were not common for everyone as they are now.
November 16, 2013
good book with Kendra being nosy as always..
with a nice twist in the end which I am sure is for the intro for the next book
with a nice twist in the end which I am sure is for the intro for the next book
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