Celia McMahon
Sep 25, 20223 min
I am thrilled to have a spot on the tour for THE KILLING CODE. This tour is hosted by TBR AND BEYOND TOURS!
Ellie Marney is a New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning crime author who has gone behind the scenes at the Westminster Mortuary in London and interviewed forensic and technical specialists around the world in pursuit of just the right details for her brand of pulse-pounding thrillers. Her titles includeThe Killing Code,None Shall Sleep, the Everytrilogy,No Limits,White Nightand the Circus Heartsseries. She has lived in Indonesia, India and Singapore, and is now based in Australia with her partner and their four sons.
Ellie has been involved in the creation of the national campaign called #LoveOzYA to promote and advocate for Australian YA literature. She contributed to the critically-acclaimed Begin End Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, and co-runs the popular #LoveOzYAbookclub online. She also co-coordinates an online info-sharing group for Australian women self-publishers. Sheteaches writing and publishing through Writers Victoria, advocates for Australian women’s writing as a Stella Ambassador in schools, and is a regular speaker at festivals and events
The Killing Code by Ellie Marney
Genre: Young Adult Historical Mystery
Publishing Date: September 20, 2022
A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer,for fans of The Enigma GameandA Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific frontwhen Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a former girls’ college now serving as the site of a secret front when Signals US Intelligence facility in Virginia. But Kit is soon involved in another kind of fight: Government girls are being brutally murdered in Washington DC, and when Kit stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she is drawn into the hunt for the killer.
To find the man responsible for the gruesome murders and,bring him to justice, Kit joins forces with other female codebreakers at Arlington Hall—gossip queen Dottie Crockford,sharp-tongued intelligence maven Moya Kershaw, and cleverly resourceful Violet DuLacfrom the segregated codebreaking unit. But as the girls begin to work together and develop friendships—and romance—that they never expected, two things begin to come clear: the murderer they’re hunting is closing in on them...and Kit is hiding a dangerous secret.
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This was a stupendous book! I have never read anything about WWII codebreakers, so this was a great jumpstart into my research.
What I loved the most was the friendships of the girls and their way of bouncing off each other and learning even outside of their own race. The idea of codebreakers is so interesting and part of me wanted to see more of that, but I did enjoy the research the author put into it. I have not read her prior work, but I understand this is her first time writing historical fiction and I must say, I am impressed! She made the story feel authentic and put a lot of thought into what it was like to live in the 1940s.
The murder mystery felt real without it being overly romanticized. It added to the tension at Kit's workplace and her nervousness about getting found out who she really is.
Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot. I hope to read more books about clever girls solving murders.
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