The Briar Club: A Novel

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington DC boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington DC 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous gung-ho Arlene who has thrown herself into McCarthy