Book
The killing code
Call Number
- MYSTERY MARN TEEN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Physical Description
377 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Ages 14 & up. Little, Brown and Company.
Summary
Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a former girls' college now serving as the site of a secret US Signals Intelligence facility in Virginia. But Kit is soon involved in another kind of fight: Government girls are being brutally murdered in Washington DC, and when Kit stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she is drawn into the hunt for the killer. To find the man responsible for the gruesome murders and bring him to justice, Kit joins forces with other female codebreakers at Arlington Hall--gossip queen Dottie Crockford, sharp-tongued intelligence maven Moya Kershaw, and cleverly resourceful Violet DuLac from the segregated codebreaking unit. But as the girls begin to work together and develop friendships--and romance--that they never expected, two things begin to come clear: the murderer they're hunting is closing in on them...and Kit is hiding a dangerous secret.
Subjects
- Serial murderers > Juvenile fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
- Murder > Investigation > Juvenile fiction.
- Women intelligence officers > Juvenile fiction.
- Female friendship > Juvenile fiction.
- Code and cipher stories.
- Serial murderers > Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
- Washington (D.C.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Washington (D.C.) > Fiction.