Prologue The book opens by describing various mothers and how they reacted to news of their dead or missing children. Detective Anna Louise Hart then thinks about herself and her own grief after learning about the death of her child. Part 1: Signs and Vapors Chapters 1 – 5 Anna Hart leaves San Francisco and …
Introduction The book opens by setting the scene in the Autumn of 1939. Hitler seems unstoppable and the Germans are encrypting their communications with a cipher device called Enimga which they deemed “unbreakable”, but “they were wrong”. Prologue (November 8, 1947) Years after the war, the wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is soon …
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn was a must-read for me. I’m picky when it comes to WWII novels (there’s so many of them!), but I felt sure Quinn could find a way to tell a story about it that was worth reading. The code-cracking intrigues at Bletchley Park are one aspect of that time …
Chapter 1 You Love Me opens with Joe Goldberg waiting to meet with his attractive new boss, Mary Kay DiMarco, who is a librarian at the Bainbridge Public Library in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Joe has been detained in jail recently for nine months. The Quinn family footed Joe’s legal bills to get Joe out of …
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune was released last year and mostly passed me by. I recall thinking it had a great title and really lovely cover (see notes about the making of that cover here), but it wasn’t until I started seeing positive reviews of it from people I know that …
