I have read A LOT of Kate Quinn books.  I love her strong female characters who often are factual women from history.  I loved The Huntress and The Rose Code and others.  So I was excited for another story.  Here is my book review The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.

Audible

I listened to this book on Audible, as I have some of Quinn’s other novels.  Her books are always read by Saskia Maarleveld, who I think is excellent.  But despite how much I have loved past books, this one fell short for me.

Quinn takes us the 1950’s, a women’s boarding house in Washington DC.  A collection of interesting and diverse characters living in the house.  When the story begins, we find the scene of a murder.  Is it one of the women? But which one?

Whodunit?

The book then jumps to each of the diverse group of women and we learn their back stories;

Secretive Grace – who spearheads a weekly gathering for the women; proper English born Flis waiting for the return of her husband; Nora who loathes her family and get’s tangled up with a local gangster;  baseball star Beatrice recovering from an injury and figuring out what is next for her; and Arlene who everybody hates because of her sugar coated exterior and venomous ways.

Who might have killed someone is the question throughout the book…and who is the victim?  All will be told in the end, with lots of twists and turns throughout.

Definitely not my favorite Kate Quinn but a good read nonetheless.  ***Three stars for The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. 

Thank you for reading my book review The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.  See last week’s book review Boy With Wings by Mark Mustian.

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