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

Set in a 1950s Washington, D.C. women’s boardinghouse, The Briar Club follows a diverse group of residents—among them a polished English homemaker, a cop’s daughter, and a former women’s baseball star—whose wary coexistence shifts when a charming but secretive widow, Grace March, moves into the attic room and begins hosting intimate dinners that draw them into a circle of unexpected friendship. As Cold War paranoia and McCarthy-era politics press in from the outside, each woman’s hidden struggles and loyalties gradually come to light, and the boardinghouse becomes both a refuge and a pressure cooker that forces them to question whom they can trust and what they are willing to risk for one another, all against the backdrop of an unnamed act of violence that threatens to shatter their fragile community.

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 🥹