A day later, the world-famous mystery author vanishes, and her abandoned car is found near a body of water notorious for corpses being found in it, leading some to suspect the writer killed herself. Agatha, however, is taken aback by her husband’s declaration that he is both leaving her and seeking a divorce. In December 1926, Archie decides to reveal the affair to his wife, to whom the news comes as no surprise. A gripping opening sentence teases O’Dea’s dark side (“A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman”). De Gramont ( The Last September) offers an intriguing new theory of why Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in this superior thriller, which places the woman Christie’s husband, Archie, was having an affair with at the time-here the fictional Nan O’Dea-at its center.
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