Death at Greenway, Lori RaderDay
Death at Greenway, Lori RaderDay
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Death at Greenway
A Novel

Author: Lori Rader-Day

Narrator: Moira Quirk

Unabridged: 12 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/12/2021


Synopsis

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 . . .

About Lori Rader-Day

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award–nominated and Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She lives in Chicago, where she is cochair of the mystery readers’ conference Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She served as the national president of Sisters in Crime in 2020.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on February 08, 2022

2.5 stars, rounded up This book suffers from two issues. The first is that the blurb/description of the book is incredibly misleading--it is touted as a suspenseful story set during World War II at the country estate of Agatha Christie that includes a deadly mystery. In reality, the "mystery" and "su......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on September 16, 2021

A lovely little historical thriller/murder mystery. (It's set in Agatha Christie's estate but she's not really much in the book.)......more

Goodreads review by Mara on September 30, 2021

3.5 stars - Hmm, I'm at somewhat of a loss as to how to rate this book. On the one hand, I think it does not deliver as a mystery novel really at all. Based on the title and description, I was certainly expecting a mystery novel set at Agatha Christie's country home during WWII. That's not really th......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on February 14, 2022

I read this whilst at Greenway so the books descriptions of the house and gardens were easy to imagine. Evacuated children and they carers take over Greenway and are there when a murder occurs, nobody really investigates it, then a nurse disappears and nobody really investigates it and there are a sp......more

Goodreads review by Mary on December 16, 2021

I will be honest, I had no idea what Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day was about going into it, and my read was totally based on cover love. It was a pleasant surprise to end up with a story having to do with murder and the holiday home of Agatha Christie. The story isn't so much focused on the ho......more