Sorry for the Dead
By (Author) Nicola Upson
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th September 2020
2nd July 2020
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Classic crime and mystery fiction
823.92
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
290g
The latest instalment of the enthralling series starring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey.
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 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.
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.