
PRAISE FOR MARY ANNA’S BOOKS

Events
2025
March 10, March 31, April 21 & May 12
4 Sessions: 6:30-8:00 pm EST
Agatha Christie and the Most Unforgivable Crime Reading Group with Mary Anna Evans
The Center for Fiction
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June 26-28
Historical Novel Society Conference for Historical Fiction
Las Vegas, NV
Friday, June 27, from 1:30 to 2:30: Cozy Chat
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About
Mary Anna Evans is an award-winning author, a writing professor, and she holds a PhD in English literature, a background that, as it turns out, is ideal for writing her upcoming standalone, The Dark Library, the story of a woman still menaced by her dead father whose rare book collection holds the secrets she needs to escape him.
Her current book, The Traitor Beside Her, takes advantage of Mary Anna’s degrees in physics and engineering to tell the story of Justine Byrne, who is working undercover in a Washington, DC code-breaking operation during World War II. Her assignment? To find a spy endangering many, many lives as the Battle of the Bulge unfolds. The first book in Mary Anna’s Justine Byrne series of historical mysteries, the Oklahoma Book Award-winning The Physicists’ Daughter, is named for Justine, whose physicist parents taught her things girls weren’t expected to know in 1944. Mary Anna describes Justine as “a little bit Rosie-the-Riveter and a little bit Bletchley Park code breaker.”
