Julia Kelly

May Book Club: A Traitor in Whitehall

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All are welcome to join our book club discussion in May (we’re skipping April) either in person or on zoom.  Message us on facebook for details.  We’ll be reading Julia Kelly’s wonderful historical mystery, A Traitor in Whitehall, set in London during the blitz.  We’ll meet in person on Sunday, May 4 at 2 p.m. and on zoom on Wednesday, May 7, at 7 p.m.  Books are available at our online store.

This book was a top 10 pick for me the year it came out.  Here’s the publisher’s description: 1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as “The Parisian Orphan” as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father’s old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cabinet war rooms. read more

Julia Kelly: Betrayal at Blackthorn Park

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Evelyne Redfern #2

In Julia Kelly’s first book in this series, heroine Evelyne Redfern got a job as a clerk in Churchill’s war rooms only to discover a body on her very first day.  As she’d been asked by a high up family friend to “keep her eyes open,” she ends up investigating. and solves the crime. In book two, she’s already been sent north for training as a member of the ultra secret Special Operations Executive (SOE), where she’ll be working as an investigator.  Her maiden outing is to Blackthorn Park, which has been requisitioned by the government as a center for creating bombs for use in the field. The home office suspects some kind of theft is going on and requests that Evelyne travel there and assess how easily the property can be breached. read more