This month’s FYA Book Club selection is Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson. This delicious mystery features a no-nonsense main character, a remote Vermont boarding school, and a cold case that’s about to be cracked wide open.
Check out the discussion questions below! (Slight spoilers ahead.)
P.S. If you’ve already read the book, feel free to add any other discussion questions of your own in the comments!
Icebreaker
Stevie is fascinated to the point of obsession with the Ellingham Affair. Have you ever been as passionate about something in your life?
Questions
- What were your initial thoughts on Stevie? Did your feelings change throughout the book?
- How did you feel about Stevie and David’s relationship?
- Who was your favorite secondary character? Why?
- Did you have a guess about why David was so familiar to Stevie at first? Or what his secrets were?
- What secret do you think Flora and Leonard were keeping for Iris?
- How, do you think, was Ellie involved with Hayes’s death?
- How do you think she’s related to Frankie and Edward?
- Do you, like Stevie, think Frankie and Edward are Truly Devious? If yes, why do you think they did what they did? If no, who do you think is?
- At one point, Stevie thinks about how she is just an amateur detective, but her access to the actual grounds of Ellingham gives her a leg up in the investigation. Did you find this believable?
- What do you think the answer to Albert Ellingham’s last riddle is?
- Were you as startled by the ending as we were?
- There are four other books in the Truly Devious series. Do you plan on reading the rest?
