Death at Greenway by Lori Rader Day

Genre: Historical
Release: October 12, 2021
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From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery.

Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House—the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie—in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca’s Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz.

Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be touched, restrictions on rooms not to be entered, and a generous library, filled with books about murder. The biggest mystery might be the other nurse, Gigi, who is like no one Bridey has ever met. Chasing ten young children through the winding paths of the estate grounds might have soothed Bridey’s anxieties and grief—if Greenway were not situated so near the English Channel and the rising aggressions of the war.

When a body washes ashore near the estate, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing. As the local villagers look among themselves, Bridey and Gigi discover they each harbor dangerous secrets about what has led them to Greenway. With a mystery writer’s home as their unsettling backdrop, the young women must unravel the truth before their safe haven becomes a place of death . . .

Dru’s Short Musing:
This novel takes you to WWII London and the home of Agatha Christie where the setting and murder takes center stage. The author knows how to tell a story that places you in the middle of all the action with visually descriptive narrative, engaging dialogue, and its suspenseful nature. Secrets abound within the house and the characters which led to the path to figuring out who was doing what to whom. Multiple plot twists enhanced how well this story was being told and kept me intrigued throughout. The writing shines through in this drama and I applaud the author for what was accomplished in the telling of this tale.

FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.