Dragonofbooks
Reading mysteries, historical fiction, biographies, history, interior design, architecture. Getting back into fantasy, vibing a little bit with scifi
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September 2026
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I did enjoy the book! The setting, characters, etc are done well. However, it is less of a thriller that you'd find in an Agatha Christie or other more thriller-thriller books like that. It's more a good view of how child loss, post-partum depression, etc affects people. It might've been more suspenseful if we had 1-2 more pov's (I would've added Henry's and Nora's povs in there imo). The twists are done well, with the clues put in well where I'd still question if I'm picking up on them but then things are put in the right place.
Dragonofbooks commented...
Ok. I think these would work for what you're looking for. I've got a mix of stuff.
Nonfiction: The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (if you want to look at people who calculated the 1st trip to space.) The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel (if finding elements in chemistry and physics and the main women who found them counts.)
Fiction: The Maggie Hope series by Susan Elia MacNeal The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff The Alice Network by Kate Quinn The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett (I've heard The Examiner, The Appeal and The Mysterious Case Of The Alperton Angels are better, but I've only read this one and The Killer Question. I've enjoyed both of them and this one does deal with codes in a book.)
I'm doing some research on codes, ciphers and other ways of the true meaning of a text or message. As part of this, I'm looking for booms and other resources on the histories of codes and ciphers and examples of their uses. Flower code, ceasar cipher, pig pin cipher, voynich manuscript, encrypted live letters, secret passages, priest holes, navajo code-talkers and anything else y'all think fall into that category I am interested in reading about.
Non fiction books about it are welcome. I'm also looking for some mysteries with use of codes and ciphers. Additionally, I've been looking into literary codes and the such. If any of y'all know of books with messsages embeded in them or poems that are anagrams or hide an additional message in the last letter of each line it'd be welcome.
Thank you!
edit: added second paragraph
