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Death at Greenway
Death at Greenway: A Novel | Lori Rader-Day
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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 . . .
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Laughterhp
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Finished this one earlier this week. A mystery set during WWII, Bridget goes to Agatha Christie‘s summer home to escape the war in London. There she helps protect kids being evacuated. A murder happens on the grounds and Bridget wants to try and solve it. A lot else goes on, but don‘t want to spoil anything!

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Greenway,the Devon holiday home of Agatha Christie is set among gardens & woodlands that lead to a river & the English Channel.During WWII,parts of the home housed child evacuees,sent there from London during the blitz.Two nurses,hiding their own secrets, arrive there to care for the children.Undercurrents of mistrust, suspicion,fear, pervade the novel.Whose “side” are the characters truly on? How does a man‘s murder play into the twisty plot?

kspenmoll This is historical fiction, but this house did become a barracks for US military.In January 1944 a flotilla of twenty four landing crafts together, with their commanders and support staff, arrived in the River Dart from the USA.They stayed until they left to participate in DDay. 2y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 📚🙌🏻 2y
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Hana321
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This story is really interesting in principle as it covers a relatively unknown event in history. At least unknown to me. I do have some mixed feelings about how the story was blended together since this is real places and people mixed with fictional characters. Sometimes it worked well and other times it was muddy, but I love history, so this won out as a pick. It‘s definitely not as much of a murder mystery as I might have thought.

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Despite the title and blurb and presence of Agatha Christie and the fact that there is indeed deaths in the book, this isn't a mystery. Honestly, I'm kind of mad that I was duped into reading a WWII novel.

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PatriciaU Oh, this is getting closer to the top of my TBR ARCs. Waste of time? 3y
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ferskner @PatriciaU I thought so, but I also think a lot of WWII fiction is unnecessary. If this had been marketed as what it was, it might not have bothered me as much. 3y
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