Sorry for the Dead (Josephine Tey Series)

Sorry for the Dead (Josephine Tey Series)

by Nicola Upson (Author)

Synopsis

'Haunting.' Sunday Times 'Wonderful.' Scotland on Sunday 'Arresting.' The Times In the summer of 1915, the violent death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house - now much changed - and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to face the possibility that the scandal which threatened to destroy those women's lives hid a much darker secret. Sorry for the Dead is the eighth book in the 'Josephine Tey' series, at once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration of love and grief

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Nov 2019

ISBN 10: 0571337368
ISBN 13: 9780571337361
Book Overview: A compelling murder mystery in which events shift between a world on the brink of a devastating world war and the deadly aftermath of that war.

Author Bio
Nicola Upson's debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey, who - along with Agatha Christie - was one of the masters of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. The most recent book in the series, Nine Lessons, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018.