Death at Greenway
Book Feature - Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day
HBL Note: Lori Rader-Day is the author of The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour, and decorated with distinguished awards such as the Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark award as well as being an Edgar Award-nominee. She is known for her blend of psychological suspense, mystery, and noir. Her latest novel, DEATH AT GREENWAY, appealed to me because it was inspired by a little-known fact about WWII (and you know how much I love a unique take on that time period!) Did you know that, during the war, ten children stayed at Agatha Christie's country home after being displaced when the Germans bombed London? Neither. Did. I. Scroll down to read more about Lori’s take on what it must’ve been like to stay at the famed novelist’s home.
Book Feature - Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day
Book Feature - Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day
From the publisher:
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 . . .
Book Feature - Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day
