A review by marybeth494
Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott

3.0

I am a huge fan of Agatha Christie and this is the first book I've read of hers writing as Mary Westmacott. I enjoyed the book but the back has this blurb: "Joan thought her marriage a happy one, her husband a man she could depend on always. But step by step the veils of illusion were stripped from her terrified eyes - and suddenly she was in the midst of a waking nightmare, wed to a man she realized was a stranger .... a man who dreamed of getting rid of her, by whatever means were necessary ...."

That is a little misleading, trying to draw in more of the Agatha Christie murder crowd. To me, this book was an interesting dive into self-reflection and not necessarily liking what you found. It doesn't diminish the book for me at all but I prefer a little murder with my Christie :)