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THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER

Mary Anna Evans

An unputdownable historical fiction centered around the secretive Carbon Division in a manufacturing plant in New Orleans during WWII. The physicists' daughter, Justine first deals with her parents, then suspects sabotage in the plant where she is working, putting her in harm's way. Evans keeps you on the edge of your seat needing to find out what is going to happen how it happens and who is behind what is going to happen.
No one can be trusted. The fate of a country is at stake. And everything depends on the physicists' daughter.

New Orleans, 1944.

Sabotage. That's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside the secretive Carbon Division be deliberately undermining the factory's Allied war efforts?

Raised by her late parents to think logically, she also can't help wondering just what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she assembles day after day have to do with the boats the factory builds. When a crane inexplicably crashes to the factory floor, leaving a woman dead, Justine can no longer ignore her nagging fear that German spies are at work within the building, trying to put the factory and its workers out of commission.

Unable to trust anyone not the charming men vying for her attention, not her unpleasant boss, and not even the women who work beside her Justine draws on the legacy of her unconventional upbringing to keep her division running and protect her coworkers, her country, and herself from a war that is suddenly very close to home.

Mary Anna Evans is the author of the Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries, which have received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Mississippi Author Award, and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals. She is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches fiction and nonfiction writing. Winner of the 2018 Sisters in Crime (SinC) Academic Research Grant
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Published 2022-06-01 by Poisoned Pen Press

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This book full of potential espionage will have your heart pumping and keep you on your toes page after page.

Perfect for fans of The Alice Network and Kate Quinn, The Physicists' Daughter is "a fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story.

With its smart, Rosie-the-Riveter heroine and intriguing wartime mystery, The Physicists' Daughter is a fresh and fascinating glimpse of life on the American home front during WWII. Replete with spies, saboteurs, and save-the-day scientists, the book is a page-turning adventure that sparked my mind and opened my heart. I never wanted the story to end!