If the author had simply built a book from the storyline around Nan, then I imagine it would have been a decent read. However, when Finbarr comes to see Nan at the hotel, Chilton recognizes him and is able to follow Finbarr to the new house that he and Agatha are staying (squatting) at. Overall found it difficult to follow the characters and timelines which left me a little bored and skim reading! The unlikely alliances, complex motivations, and jaw-dropping surprises will keep you riveted until the very last page.

As the story begins we meet Colonel Archibald (Archie) Christie who is embroiled in an affair with Miss Nan O’Dea. Of course, one must acknowledge that all of this is conjecture, but I found it to be clever conjecture indeed. In general, the storyline is surprisingly imaginative, offering up an intricate plot to fit neatly behind a historical event (Christie’s disappearance) that relatively little is known about. It felt as if there were a great plot but the techniques needed tightening up to help the reader stay in the right voice. From that timeline, the potential theory as to why Agatha might have disappeared in the first place and why Nan was so dogged in her pursuit of Archie comes to light in a fascinating manner.Finbarr and Agatha took the abandoned car and drove off, ending up at the manor house where Chilton found Agatha (and Finbarr).

After finding Agatha and Finbarr at the manor house, Chilton permits Agatha a day before turning her in. I was shocked by the ending twist, you will see it coming because of a very revealing hint, but still stunning. In Ireland, she meets and falls in love with Finbarr, a boy a few years older who helps out around her Uncle's farm. It is a fascinating and shocking fictional account of what she tells (or imagines) happened and why.It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing? Then there were the miracles: the coincidences that could never have occurred joining parts of the plot together. With its superb writing, strong characterizations, and wonderfully imaginative plot, this is a must-read. The mystery of Christie’s 11-day disappearance in 1926 is rivaled only by the mystery of Jimmy Hoffa’s far-more-permanent disappearance in 1975 as the most famous “cold case” in modern times.