A review by ahousethatreads
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

I don’t believe I have read any books by Agatha Christie but In December 1926, she went missing for eleven days. Whether her disappearance involved foul play, she left under her own free will, or she experienced some kind of episode of amnesia, we will never know. Neither Agatha Christie's or her husband, Archibald Christie's reputations came out of this incident unscathed. After all, a thousand police officers and 15,000 volunteers were part of the search effort for Christie and it didn't sit well that there was no explanation given for why she was missing for eleven days. 
 
This book did a good job of mixing fiction and nonfiction, and I had to keep double checking  that this was indeed fiction. I loved how the chapters went back and forth and how you could never quite decide what had happened until the very end. 
 
TW: Body Shaming, Infidelity, Death of Parent 
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