Sorry for the Dead is the eighth mystery novel in the Josephine Tey series by author Nicola Upson.
A gripping murder mystery that is both a touching exploration of love and pain. Critically acclaimed author Nicola Upson is a force to be reckoned with.

In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brought grief and scandal to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.

Years later, Josephine Tey returns to her old home – much changed now – and recalls the two women she had been with as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to confront the possibility that the scandal that threatens to destroy the lives of those women is hiding a dark secret. much darker.

I’m usually not a fan of using prologues but Sorry for the Dead opens with an offensive prologue and will leave any regular reader of the series uncomfortable for the rest of the series. book.

Josephine is a prominent character in this book and my favorite character, Archie Penrose, only makes occasional cameos. However, I still enjoyed the story. Told in two timelines, we are transported back to 1915 when Josephine was a young teacher accompanying a group of girls from a private school to learn about farming and gardening. When one of them died, it was reported as an accident but many doubts remained.

Back in 1938, the events of that day were repeated in the press and Josephine set out to investigate what really happened on that day long ago. There are too many cover-ups, too many false suspicions, and too many people with their own plans that make it difficult for her to access the truth.

This eighth in the Josephine Tey mystery series is my first for Women’s History month and truly tells a sad history. Tey (real name Elizabeth MacIntosh) is reimagined in Upson’s mysteries as a playwright and later author who also solves mysteries. Basically, the book opens in 1948 with the end of the story and then goes back to 1938, where some kind of nasty gossip columnist makes insinuations that Tey is involved in a murder. man in 1915.

It then goes back to 1915, when, during the First World War, Tey was sent to a horticultural college where young women were trying to make up for the loss of life. absence of men at home by becoming more self-sufficient in growing food for the British people. However, one of the young women Tey was overseeing, a spoiled rich young lady, mysteriously died in the greenhouse. Although the two women who own the university have been cleared, there is always resentment and hatred for them because they suspect they are lovers.

• Sorry for the Dead

• Josephine Tey, Book 8
• By: Nicola Upson

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