The Killing Code by Ellie Marney
About Ellie Marney
Ellie Marney is a multi-award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of crime thrillers, including The Killing Code, None Shall Sleep, White Night, No Limits, the Every series, and the Circus Hearts series. Her books are published in ten countries and have been optioned for television. She’s spent a lifetime researching in mortuaries, interviewing law enforcement officers, talking to autopsy specialists, and asking former spies how to make explosives from household items, and now she lives quite sedately in south eastern Australia with her family. For further information, visit:
Quote from Ellie Marney
“It’s a massive honour to see The Killing Code on the ARA Historical Novel Prize CYA long-list, and I’m hugely grateful – not just for myself, but as a crucial acknowledgement of the incredible work and sacrifices of the women who worked in signal intelligence as Allied codebreakers during World War II. For such a long time, the dedication and service of these women codebreakers lay concealed beneath the Official Secrets Act in every Allied country. It was a genuine privilege to explore and reveal even a small part of their story in The Killing Code. Without historical fiction, so many lives and stories go unnoticed and forgotten; I’m delighted that the recognition of prizes like this one allows us to shine a light on the hidden corners of history.”
About The Killing Code
1943. World War II is raging across Europe and on the Pacific front. Kit Sutherland is hiding a huge secret when she is unexpectedly recruited to work as a young codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a US Signals Intelligence facility.
When Kit’s roommate doesn’t return home from a dance, it sparks a search that ends in a gruesome discovery. And soon it turns into a horrifying pattern: Government girls are being murdered in Washington, DC.
Kit joins forces with three other girl codebreakers, Dottie, Moya and Violet, and as they work to crack the killer’s code, two things become terrifyingly clear: the murderer they’re hunting is getting closer every moment … and Kit’s own secret could put her in more jeopardy than she ever imagined.
