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Sorry for the Dead

Josephine Tey, Book 8

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Sorry for the Dead

By: Nicola Upson
Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
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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.

©2019 Nicola Upson (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Fiction

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I have to admit to this not being my favourite of all Nicola Upson books, due mainly to their being so many characters. The narration, as always brilliant by Sandra Duncan, saved it for me, however.

Another engrossing story.

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Another engaging and interesting story in this series that gives an insight into Josephine Tey’s early life and the fears of exposure by gay people and the prejudices they had to endure. The narrator was fine in earlier books but in this one many of the females are caricatures with squeaky or screechy voices that are at times painful to hear. This spoiled my pleasure in an otherwise good book.

Good story marred by narration

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Nasty dangerous places, gardens! Good to have Archie’s cousins back in this one set around Charleston in Sussex.

Death in the greenhouse

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I will not do a spoiler of the plot here.....however . The story kept me hooked and Nicola did a good job of different times and the happenings taking us back in order to understand the now of the book. I loved the references made to places East Sussex and Lewes being very familiar to me. BUT no to the murderer and the complexity of guilt and shame that hang around the book....even if the prejudices of the time were true are unbelievable.

Captivating but with a ‘but’ at the end.

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Set in Suusex initially during the First World War and then the 1930s. the tragic death of a young girl unravels the lives of the women at the centre of the story and the repercussions last for the rest of their lives. The central character, Josephine Tey, tries in later life to discover the truth of what happened and why, but there is no simple answer. The social constraints of the time and attitudes to women create the context for what happened and the impact on all those involved. The places and some of the characters are based on real places and real people, including Josephine Tey of course, which makes one wonder how much of the story is founded in fact. It was very enjoyable walking well known parts of the South the Downs with the characters and visiting familiar places while being engrossed in the story. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I am now going to research the background to see how much really is based on fact. I see that this may be part of a series by Nicola Upson based on Josephine Tey"s mysteries. I think I will keep this as a stand alone good read, at least for the moment, as I don't want to dilute my enjoyment of this book by finding it is part of a formula.

An enthralling tale set around the Suusex Downs

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Surprised and disappointed. I have thoroughly enjoyed the previous two books by this author that I have listened to but this just did not hit the spot.
Rambling story and too many characters. I couldn't have cared less to killed the woman.
Never mind. I will still listen to her other works and hope that this is just an anomaly.

Turgid!

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Have enjoyed other Josephine Tey books but this one is a fairly weak mystery and much more a rather disjointed romantic retrospective novel. Really didn’t enjoy it, sorry!

Not so good

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