<p><strong>The <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Diamond Eye</em> and <em>The Rose Code</em> returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.</strong></p>
<p>Washington, D.C., 1950</p><p>Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades.</p><p>But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbours – a poised English beauty, a policeman’s daughter, a frustrated female baseball star, and a rabidly pro-McCarthy typist – into an unlikely friendship.</p><p>Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their troubled lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. And when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?</p><p><strong>Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, <em>The Briar Club</em> is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.</strong></p><p>'This powerful, unforgettable historical romance is for fans of Mary Anna Evans's Justine Byrne series and stories with strong women characters' <em>Starred Library Journal Review</em></p><p>'Compulsively readable, The Briar Club will find eager readers in those who love woman-led historical fiction with rich, appealing characters' <em>Starred Booklist Review</em></p><p>'Blending suspense with themes of class struggle and female empowerment, this is a thrilling addition to Quinn's repertoire’ <em>Glamour Magazine</em></p>
