Books by Jane Thynne
“It’s 1938, the eve of war, and I think there are parallels with where we are today. You have Neville Chamberlain going to Munich and other places, trying to appease Hitler. Memories of World War I were still too stark and much of the country was thinking, ‘We can’t face another war’…The plot revolves around a detective writer Hubert Newman, who dies suddenly. That’s the backstory, the intriguing piece of this book. Was it a natural death? Or was there something dodgy about it? Newman was a cozy detective novelist who is less cozy than he seems.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Jane Thynne were recommended
The Best Spy Novels of 2024, recommended by Shane Whaley
From a novel about the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba to the latest John le Carré novel, from a Mossad agent in London to the hunt for a traitor at CIA HQ in Virginia, Shane Whaley, host of Spybrary—the podcast for lovers of spy books—talks us through his best spy novels of 2024.
