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Sorry for the Dead

Josephine Tey Mysteries 8

Nicola Upson
In the eighth of her novels to fictionalize Josephine Tey’s life, Nicola Upson takes the 1930s crime writer back to the college where she witnessed a tragic death in 1915. New evidence suggests murder, and Tey must uncover dark secrets to get to the truth.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Faber
  • Year: 2019
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 356pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 224x134mm
  • ISBN: 9780571337361
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.5kg
Product code:
515652
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** Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020 **

'Haunting.' Sunday Times
'Wonderful.' Scotland on Sunday
'Arresting.' The Times

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 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.


Sorry for the Dead is the eighth book in the 'Josephine Tey' series, at once a compelling murder mystery and a moving exploration of love and grief
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