The Christie Affair

There's a lot going on in this 300 page book that I thought would be a light beach-read-like imagining of “what really happened” when Agatha Christie went missing for 10 days in 1925. The story is narrated by Nan O'Dea, who we quickly find out is conducting an affair with Agatha Christie's husband, Archie, and is intending to get him to divorce Agatha and marry her. We might make some assumptions about why Miss O'Dea is doing this, but as we learn more about her history, those assumptions are called into question.

This is a clever mystery wrapped up in a tale of star-crossed lovers, separated by World War I and then patriarchy, and then grief and trauma.