Book description
Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge?
"Sizzles from its first sentence." - The Wall Street Journal
A Reese's Book Club Pick
In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea…
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2 authors picked The Christie Affair as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a person who often researches the facts in books that I have really enjoyed, I’ve yet to do that with this tale, but it’s up there on my to-do list.
In The Christie Affair, the author reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926, and it is such a great reimagining that I half wonder whether Ms. Gramont was somehow there.
The book is enthralling, and if Agatha’s disappearance and re-emergence didn’t happen this way, it should have done! So many Agatha Christie novels have made it onto TV and the big screen; I really hope this…
As a mystery reader and writer, I idolize Agatha Christie, the bestselling fiction writer of all time. In her 60+ detective novels, the mystery is always solved, but she left behind an unsolved mystery about herself. In 1926, after Archie Christie asked for a divorce to marry his lover, Agatha vanished for eleven days. Found after a massive manhunt, she never revealed why or how she disappeared. The Christie Affair solves that mystery in an inventive way, narrated by Archie’s mistress, a character I didn’t expect to like but grew to understand. I love the novel’s intertwining of history and…
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