Nina de Gramont\'s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder--and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
The question is, why? Why destroy another woman\'s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O\'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?.
London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O\'Dea became Archie Christie\'s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie.
The greatest mystery wasn\'t Agatha Christie\'s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it\'s what she discovered.
The way justice feels sweet.
In retrospect, it\'s frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet.
There\'s a joy to it.
It takes over your body so completely, it\'s like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche.
It\'s a particular feeling, the urge to murder.
A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman.
Every mystery has its motives.
Every story has its secrets.
Nina de Gramont\'s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder--and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century
