‘Classy, clever, and superbly researched and plotted, The Voices of the Dead is a reading pleasure from start to finish.’ Lancashire Evening Post Happy publication day to @nicolaupson.bsky.social! The Voices of the Dead is out today in hardback 📖
Nicola Upson 🏳️🌈
@nicolaupson.bsky.social
Novelist/arts journalist. Author of CWA Dagger shortlisted 'Josephine Tey' crime series (Faber) & standalone novel STANLEY AND ELSIE (Duckworth).
212. Voices of the Dead by @nicolaupson.bsky.social Another hugely welcome addition to this superb historical detective series featuring real-life crime writer Josephine Tey. This novel is set in 1941 against the backdrop of the Blitz and the evacuation of the National Gallery to Manod slate mines.
My reread journey through the fab Josephine Tey Mysteries by @nicolaupson.bsky.social is complete with #ShotWithCrimson - book 11. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social Onto brand new book 12, #TheVoicesOfTheDead next! 💙📚 brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2026/10/shot...
Shot With Crimson (Josephine Tey Mysteries Book 11) by Nicola Upson
Shot With Crimson (Josephine Tey Mysteries Book 11) by Nicola Upson. Published 2nd November 2023 by Faber Books. From the cover of the bo...
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Christmas Eve, 1943. Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game and instead discover a real murder. Can the Pratts puzzle out this Christmas mystery before it's too late? The Christmas Clue by @nicolaupson.bsky.social is out now in paperback 🔍
'A perfect Christmas crime story – atmospheric and chilling.' Elly Griffiths Pick up @nicolaupson.bsky.social's festive crime novella The Christmas Clue for the colder, darker nights, out today in paperback ❄️ www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Out today! The sparkly gold paperback edition of #TheChristmasClue from @faberbooks.bsky.social This festive mystery featuring the real-life creators of #cluedo was a joy to write, and I hope you love it too.
That all-too-familiar refusal to make eye contact when we both need the same chair!
There are two publication days for #TheChristmasClue this week. First up is this beautiful @unionsqandco.bsky.social edition, out in the US today. Hope you love it!
I'll be talking about #AgathaChristie's delightfully entertaining novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans? this afternoon on @bbcradio4 Opening Lines with John Yorke. Can't wait to hear the adaptation!
2500 books, 2 hours 55 minutes and 4 Sharpies later! Wonderful day at CPI Books signing this beautiful indie bookshops paperback of #TheChristmasClue, out next month @faberbooks.bsky.social
I read Dear Little Corpses by @nicolaupson.bsky.social this weekend and can't stop thinking about it. Fantastic series.
The beautiful German language edition of The Christmas Clue is out today from @keinundaber.bsky.social Hope you love it!
My revisit to the fab Josephine Tey Mysteries by @nicolaupson.bsky.social continues, via the excellent audiobooks narrated by Sandra Duncan. Book nine, The Dead of Winter, was a joy to reread - one of my favs too! Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
The Dead Of Winter (Josephine Tey Mysteries Book Nine) by Nicola Upson
The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson. Published 5th November 2020 by Faber and Faber. Audio book narrated by Sandra Duncan. From the cover o...
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For 'Josephine Tey' mystery fans in the US, the new book in the series is out @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social on 10 November. Preorder between now and Friday and get 25% off @barnesandnoble.com Hope you love it!
Expect precious paintings, a 40 year old cold case, Margaret Rutherford, Noel Coward - and a wedding. The new 'Josephine Tey' mystery is out in November @faberbooks.bsky.social
My reread journey through the excellent Josephine Tey mysteries by @nicolaupson.bsky.social continues with book 8 #SorryForTheDead - out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2026/09/sorr...
Sorry For The Dead (Josephine Tey Mysteries Book Eight) by Nicola Upson
Sorry For The Dead (Josephine Tey Mysteries Book Eight) by Nicola Upson. Published 2nd July 2020 by Faber Books. Audio book narrated by S...
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Josephine Tey wrote classic #CrimeFiction. Now she leads a fictional afterlife as the lead character in @nicolaupson.bsky.social’s @thecwa.bsky.social Dagger-shortlisted series of crime novels, starting with AN EXPERT IN MURDER, from @faberbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 7/7 www.faber.co.uk/journal/jose...
Josephine Tey: Crime Writer and Imagined Detective
During her life in the first half of the twentieth century, Josephine Tey was a writer of classic crime fiction. In an after life she is the lead character in Nicola Upson’s crime novels, now a series...
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'My birthday is July 25, and as far as I can remember there was no mention of my blazing genius.' Happy birthday #JosephineTey. 130 today, and still blazing.
'Nicola Upson's Josephine Tey mysteries are a class above the usual crime fiction.' Independent @nicolaupson.bsky.social is back this November with The Voices of the Dead, a new Josephine Tey Mystery set in the summer of 1941 🔍 linktr.ee/thevoicesoft...
Christmas Eve, 1943. Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game – and instead discover a real murder. Perfect for 'betwixtmas' reading, The Christmas Clue by @nicolaupson.bsky.social is out now in hardback and ebook 🎁
Reading 2025 No. 41: Some perfect Christmas reading from @nicolaupson.bsky.social. The inventors of Cluedo turn up to a snowy village hotel prepared to run a murder mystery game, only to find a real murder has taken place... Loved it. #bookstagram #crimefiction #Christ
This has been such a happy book for me. Thank you to all @david-higham-books.bsky.social & @faberbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who's bought, sold, borrowed, loaned and loved it. Most of all, thank you to Anthony and Elva, who created #Cluedo. They will be back! Until then, merry Christmas x
#BookReview - The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson This murder mystery novella, featuring the real life inventors of Cluedo, will appeal to all fans of classic crime. @nicolaupson.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social #TheChristmasClue shortbookandscribes.uk/reviews/shor...
Thoroughly enjoyed THE CHRISTMAS CLUE by @nicolaupson.bsky.social : the unsung inventors of #Cluedo solve a wartime mystery - at 180 pages a 'proper-sized' book and a good holiday read. Comes with a traditional map by Joe McLaren.
‘Why on earth would you come away to a hotel at Christmas if you didn’t want to be disturbed?’ The guests at the Tudor Close Hotel are in for a holiday that they'll never forget in @nicolaupson.bsky.social's seasonal murder mystery, The Christmas Clue. Out now in hardback 🎄
