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The Briar Club
The Briar Club
The Briar Club

The Briar Club

The Briar Club
The Briar Club
By:
Kate Quinn
  • Spice Scale
  • Number of books

    1 Published

  • KU

    ✅

  • Audiobook

    ✅

  • Series Status

    Complete

  • Interconnected

    N/A

  • Overall Rating

    Coming Soon

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.

Washington, D.C., 1950

Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades.

But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbours – a poised English beauty, a policeman’s daughter, a frustrated female baseball star, and a rabidly pro-McCarthy typist – into an unlikely friendship.

Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their troubled lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. And when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?

Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.

'This powerful, unforgettable historical romance is for fans of Mary Anna Evans's Justine Byrne series and stories with strong women characters' Starred Library Journal Review

'Compulsively readable, The Briar Club will find eager readers in those who love woman-led historical fiction with rich, appealing characters' Starred Booklist Review

'Blending suspense with themes of class struggle and female empowerment, this is a thrilling addition to Quinn's repertoire’ Glamour Magazine

Jamie’s review

Now THIS is how you do historical fiction! Mismatched lovable characters + a murder mystery + recipes for tasty eastern bloc dishes? YES please.

Briar Wood House is a boarding house in Washington DC during the 50's. You get to meet all the people living at the boarding house and learn all their secretttsssssss 🤫

I loved all the characters and the build up to figure out WHO was murdered and HOW. It's great. That end scene where it all plays out is **chefs kiss**

Such a fun read. I will miss Grace and the Briar Club hodgepodge of friends 🥹

Now THIS is how you do historical fiction! Mismatched lovable characters + a murder mystery + recipes for tasty eastern bloc dishes? YES please.

Briar Wood House is a boarding house in Washington DC during the 50's. You get to meet all the people living at the boarding house and learn all their secretttsssssss 🤫

I loved all the characters and the build up to figure out WHO was murdered and HOW. It's great. That end scene where it all plays out is **chefs kiss**

Such a fun read. I will miss Grace and the Briar Club hodgepodge of friends 🥹

Erica’s review

Erica hasn’t read this yet, it’s on her never ending TBR

Books in this series

  • Book 1

    of

    1

    A Shadow in the Ember
    The Briar Club

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