A newly discovered grave in the Welsh countryside delivers messages from the dead in the twelfth Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.


London, 1941. In the aftermath of the Blitz, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose supervises the transportation of the National Gallery's most precious paintings to their new sanctuary in the slate mines of north Wales. Vacationing in the area is Josephine Tey as well as Noel Coward-who is preparing his defiant new play, in which Margaret Rutherford plays a clairvoyant.

But when a woman's grave is discovered amid the debris of a collapsed roof in the mines, Archie and Josephine are plunged into a forty-year-old mystery. As secrets emerge, a new death threatens to tear apart the close-knit Welsh community.

In this thrilling novel, no one is immune to the voices of the dead, and there will be no rest until they are heard.

Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theater and as a freelance journalist and is the author of two nonfiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels to feature Josephine Tey--one of the leading authors of Britain's age of crime writing. Her research for the books has included many conversations with people who lived through the period and who knew Josephine Tey well, most notably Sir John Gielgud. The book was dramatized by BBC Scotland for Woman's Hour, and praised by P. D. James as marking "the arrival of a new and assured talent." Nicola lives with her partner in Cambridge and Cornwall.