Hardcover (good condition)
Author: Simone St. James
Genre: Mystery/thriller, Historical fiction
Year published: 2018
 
Simone St. James’s The Broken Girls weaves together a dual-timeline mystery set in Vermont, centering on the abandoned Idlewild Hall, once a boarding school for troubled girls. In 1950, four friends at the school bond over shared hardships, but their lives are shattered when one of them mysteriously disappears. In 2014, journalist Fiona Sheridan—still haunted by her sister’s murder near Idlewild twenty years earlier—investigates the property after a shocking discovery during its renovation. As past and present converge, Fiona uncovers long-buried secrets, ghostly legends, and a web of lies that reveal the dark truth about the school and those who once lived there.