About this Event
This Bonfire Night, join author Nicola Upson as she discusses the explosive next book in the Josephine Tey mystery series,The Voices of the Dead. When a woman's grave is discovered amid the debris of a roof fall in the mines, Archie and Josephine are plunged into a forty-year-old mystery, and a death that threatens to tear apart the close-knit Welsh community. Secrets begin to emerge, and no-one is immune to the voices of the dead. Book signing to follow.
Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England. Her debut novel, An Expert in M**der, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey, who – along with Agatha Christie – was one of the masters of of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018 for Nine Lessons and was longlisted in 2021 forThe Dead of Winter.
Event venue & nearby stays
Waterstones, 22 Sidney Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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