About the book: 2019 / “Ashford knows how to create an incredibly exciting mixture of reality and fiction.” - Guardian. Agatha Christie fans will be absolutely delighted. The detective queen herself is on the famous fast train, which became the setting for the most famous novel about the great detective Hercule Poirot... A fateful journey that changed everything for her. Agatha's world turned upside down. She was deceived and left by her husband, under whose name she became famous as a master detective. Two years have passed, and the writer still won’t come to her senses. Making another attempt to shake herself up, she boards the Orient Express. Her path lies to the Middle East, one of the first centers of human civilization. There, archeology, which is incredibly interesting to her, reveals the secrets of antiquity...Agatha is not the only woman with a broken life on this train. The two fellow travelers have their own tragedies behind them. Tragedies carefully hidden - because they made women outcasts in Britain in the late 1920s. Agatha will have to strain all her strength in order, like her heroes, to penetrate other people's secrets, protected from the world. The three of them will forever get rid of the burden of the past - together, but each in their own way…