Nancy is a new resident at a boarding school, where all of the students once crossed over into an alternate world and have returned to parents who aren't so pleased with the kid who came back. (Kinda like Narnia or Wonderland, but not quite; McGuire offers an amusing and eviscerating description of Narnia that makes the reader quite clear that none of those in the boarding school have ever gone to Narnia.) Nancy, who visited the Halls of the Dead, is still learning her way around when students begin dying in horrendous ways, and finds herself one of the prime suspects in their murders.
It's a short book, and it gives me much pleasure to describe it as Gaimanesque, in that it's spooky, unsettling, magical, and strangely real. This is the first book I've read by the Hugo-nominated McGuire, and I'll definitely be reading more by her. This was fantastic.
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