The Killing Code
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Thrillers & Suspense / Psychological
4.8
Ellie Marney
A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer—for fans of The Enigma Game and Last Night at the Telegraph Club. Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when 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 US Signal Intelligence facility. 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 DuLac from 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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Author
Ellie Marney
Pages
384
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published Date
2022-09-20
ISBN
0316340065 9780316340069
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"I cannot recommend this book enough. It's a historical fiction but also horror book with an amazing plot twist. The authors writing is captivating and strings you along throughout the whole book. The book is about government girls trying to find a murderer, and this killer has been killing government girls. This book is worth every second you spend reading it and i cannot recommend it enough. The characters have depth and are well rounded, the ending makes sense and this book is overall just an amazing find."
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