Spy Novel
In Transcription, the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, a young woman is recruited to MI5 to transcribe conversations between agents and Nazi sympathizers in Britain during World War II. After the war, Juliet works a humdrum job at the BBC and believes the past is behind her when unusual happenings—old colleagues turning up on streets, a threatening note in the mail—can’t be ignored. In Atkinson’s quietly suspenseful novel, nothing is as it seems.
Family Drama
The McCloud siblings have lost everything—first their mother to childbirth, then their father to a Category 5 tornado. Tucker disappears, leaving the eldest, Darlene, to care for her two sisters. Three years later, Tucker, now a radical animal rights activist, reappears after bombing a local cosmetics factory to kidnap his 9-year-old sister,…
