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Book Title: The Traitor Beside Her

Series: The Justine Byrne Historical Mysteries

Author:  Mary Anna Evans

Publication Date:  June 6, 2023

Publisher:  Sourcebooks

Page Length:  346

Genre: Historical Mystery

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Book Title and Author Name:

The Traitor Beside Her

Mary Anna Evans

Audiobook narrated by Kimberly M. Wetherell

Blurb:

“Evans’s characters are vividly drawn, elevating this story and its revelations about women’s little-celebrated contributions to the war effort.”— Washington Post

“An exciting read with historical tidbits, a hint of danger, and a touch of romance.”— Kirkus Reviews

The Traitor Beside Her is an intricately plotted WWII espionage novel weaving together mystery, action, friendship, and a hint of romance perfect for fans of The Rose Code and Code Name Helene.

Justine Byrne can’t trust the people working beside her. Arlington Hall, a former women’s college in Virginia has been taken over by the United States Army where hundreds of men and women work to decode countless pieces of communication coming from the Axis powers.

Justine works among them, handling the most sensitive secrets of World War II—but she isn’t there to decipher German codes—she’s there to find a traitor.

Justine keeps her guard up and her ears open, confiding only in her best friend, Georgette, a fluent speaker of Choctaw who is training to work as a code talker. Justine tries to befriend each suspect, believing that the key to finding the spy lies not in cryptography but in understanding how code breakers tick. When young women begin to go missing at Arlington Hall, her deadline for unraveling the web of secrets becomes urgent and one thing remains clear: a single secret in enemy hands could end thousands of lives.

“A fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story.” —Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author for The Physicists’ Daughter

Excerpt:

When Angels Fly 

Justine’s Guardian Angel in The Traitor Beside Her

by Mary Anna Evans

When writing for a blog with the name When Angels Fly, I thought the ideal topic would be my protagonist Justine Byrne’s guardian angel, her godmother Gloria Mazur.

Justine was introduced in The Physicists’ Daughter, a book that had the perfect name because Justine’s entire life course was set because she was the daughter of two physicists, but there were actually more physicists in her life. Her parents were friends with the most famous scientists of the 1930s, including Albert Einstein, but their best friend was Gloria Mazur, who had earned her doctorate in physics alongside Justine’s mother Isabel. When Justine’s father Gerard accepted a job as a professor in New Orrleans, Gloria moved there, too, taking a job teaching at a nearby women’s college. She built a house down the street from Justine’s family and she was there for all of her goddaughter’s growing-up years.

Gloria had her struggles, as she had emigrated alone to America from Poland when she was only fifteen, supporting herself as a seamstress as she learned English and went to night school. When Justine was a child, she watched her mother comfort Gloria through periods of deep depression, when she missed her faraway family and wondered what the approaching war in Europe would mean for them. Losing Isabel and Gerard was yet another blow to her emotional health, and it cost her Justine, too. Justine was only eighteen, and she couldn’t face Gloria’s pain and her own, too, so she ran. For three years, she avoided Gloria, but as The Physicists’ Daughter began, she went to her godmother and made peace.

By the time of The Traitor Beside Her, Gloria finally has a job where her skills are appreciated. Instead of teaching part-time, only allowed to take the classes the men didn’t want, she has her own lab where she trains American spies to recognize and defend themselves against the enemy’s dangerous new weapons, and she has a hand in developing a few new weapons of her own. Horrified that her goddaughter has been put into a dangerous job with almost no training and little ability to defend herself, Gloria fills the role of a spy’s fairy godmother, putting cutting-edge weapons in Justine’s hands and telling her how to use them.

In the more traditional role of a godmother, she also gives Justine advice about her on-again-off-again romance. In short, she tells her that it is very difficult to love a spy. Would you ever be sure who would be waking up beside you?

Gloria is brilliant, loving, protective, and shrewd. Everybody should have a guardian angel like her!

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Author Bio:

Mary Anna Evans is an award-winning author, a writing professor, and she holds degrees in physics and engineering, a background that, as it turns out, is ideal for writing her Justine Byrne series, which began with The Physicists’ Daughter and continues with her new book, The Traitor Beside Her. She describes Justine as “a little bit Rosie-the-Riveter and a little bit Bletchley Park codebreaker.”

Mary Anna’s crime fiction has earned recognition that includes two Oklahoma Book Awards, the Will Rogers Medallion Awards Gold Medal, and the Benjamin Franklin Award, and she co-edited the Edgar-nominated Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie.

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