Book: The Christie Affair

 Book: The Christie AFfair

Author: Nina De Gramont

Pages: 400

This is my 122nd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for 11 days?  What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage?  How deeply can a person crave revenge?  In 1925, Miss Nan O'Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husabnd, Archie.  In every way, he became a part of their life - first, both Christies.  Then, just Archie.  Soon, Nan became Archie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him.  Nan's plot didn't begin the day she met Archie and Agatha.  It begane decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl.  She and the man she loved were a star-crossed couple who were destined to be togehter - until the Great War, a pandemic, and shameful secrets tore them apart.  Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated.  What drives someone to murder?  What will someone do in the name of love?  What kind of crime can someone never forgive?

This was a pretty good book.  I liked being able to look up Agatha Christie, Archie Christie and Nan's actual lives to see where she stuck to the truth and where the author took liberties.  This book was told from Nan's perspective, and I could find very little about her online.  Archibald's Wikipedia page is 2 lines long and no where it mentioned that he was married to anyone except Agatha.  However he was married to Nan and they had a kid and they stayed married until she died in the 1950s.  Anyway - there were some other parts of the book where she veered from the truth, but I won't go into them since it would give away the plot of this book too much.  The characters are well developed and you end up liking just about everyone.  It had a good ending and I am glad it lead me to looking more into the lives of these people.

Stars: 4