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NEWSNewsAn Expert in Murder is now available as an unabridged audio book, published by Whole Story Audio Books. The book is beautifully narrated by actress Sandra Duncan, and you can order a copy and find out more at www.wholestoryaudio.co.uk An Expert in Murder was dramatised by BBC Radio Scotland for the Woman's Hour Serial in April, adapted by Robin Brooks and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. Click here to listen to a documentary on the making of the programme, produced by Mandy Morton and first broadcast on The Eclectic Light Show, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. UK ReviewsTimes Online, 22 February 2008 – Marcel BerlinsDETECTIVE STORY aficionados will know the name Josephine Tey, the Scottish author of several popular whodunnits around the 1930s and 1940s, two of which – The Franchise Affair and The Daughter of Time – find their way into many lists of crime classics.
Telegraph, 2 March 2008 – Susanna YagerWriting a real person into a novel can be tricky and I suspect that the mystery writer Josephine Tey, an intensely private woman, might have been surprised at the role she is given in Nicola Upson's An Expert in Murder.
The Independent, 12 March 2008 – Jane JakemanElizabeth Mackintosh was a complicated personality. As Josephine Tey, she was the author of brooding crime fiction. As Gordon Daviot, she wrote a successful historical drama, Richard of Bordeaux, a triumph for its star, John Gielgud. But the writer herself was a mystery, living in the Highlands and descending on London only at intervals. Nicola Upson takes the bold step of making this enigma the leading character in a novel.
Financial Times, 15 March 2008 – James UrquhartJosephine Tey takes the train from Scotland to London for the last week of Richard of Bordeaux, her surprising hit play that famously triumphed against charges of plagiarism, only for her travelling companion – an ardent admirer – to be stabbed on arrival at King’s Cross.
The Guardian, 29 March 2008 – Mark LawsonCrime-writers dream of creating a detective who becomes a cultural celebrity: a Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot. One short cut to this effect is to use a sleuth who already has literary name recognition. There are novels in which felons are bested by Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle... US ReviewsMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 31, 2008"… Upson's wonderful debut mystery that imagines Josephine Tey as the protagonist [is] one of the most original mysteries I've read in ages. Upson's novel beautifully has rendered the modernist atmosphere of Britain between the wars. Her characters are developed richly, each one drawn from a real person who populated the London theater of the 1930s, and her plot is a lovely layered puzzle."
Historical Novels Review, May 2008"The writing is excellent and the tale well plotted and effective… This is a profound novel, yet with the delights of an intriguing mystery. I look forward to the forthcoming books in the series."
Library Journal, June 1, 2008"Some books just grab readers and never let go. Using classic mystery author Josephine Tey (The Daughter of Time; The Franchise Affair) as her detective protagonist, debut novelist Upson has written an original mystery as finely plotted as any of Tey's works… We can only hope that the next adventure of Miss Tey will be out soon. Fans of Tey, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and other writers of mystery's "Golden Age" (1919-39) will put this on their reserve lists. Highly recommended for all mystery collections." Reviews archiveMore reviews are available in the archive.
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