Sorry for the Dead
A Josephine Tey Mystery
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
At once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration of love and grief, critically acclaimed author Nicola Upson's eighth Josephine Tey mystery is a force to be reckoned with.
In the summer of 1915, the sudden 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Upson's magnificent eighth whodunit featuring real-life mystery author Josephine Tey (after 2017's Nine Lessons) finds Josephine in Cambridge, England, in 1938, overseeing the rehearsal of one of her plays when she receives a copy of an upsetting newspaper article. In 1915, at a horticultural college in Sussex, 16-year-old Dorothy Norwood, the twin sister of stage actress Betty Banks, died in an apparent accident in the college's greenhouse soon after she accused the two women who ran the school of being lovers. Betty, who found Dorothy's body, is now suggesting that her sister was murdered and insinuates that Josephine, who was a chaperone at the school at the time, is implicated in the crime. Fearful that her own secrets, including her current romantic relationship with a woman, will be exposed, Josephine again turns detective. The significance of the opening, in which an unknown woman commits suicide in 1948, eventually becomes painfully clear. As always, Upson couples an engrossing plot with a nuanced and poignant look at human passions and frailties. Fans of golden-age mysteries will be more than satisfied.
