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New Suspense!

The Dark Library

Coming June 24th

Can a family’s dark history repeat itself?

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PRAISE FOR MARY ANNA’S BOOKS

An immersive and fast-paced historical thriller, with a sophisticated twist. E is a main character with a fabulous voice who you would want as a friend.
—Author Stacie Grey (on The Dark Library)
World War II and espionage novels are popular, and [Mary Anna Evans] brings both together in a story of young women undercover on the home front.
Library Journal (on The Traitor Beside Her)

[A] fresh and fascinating glimpse of life on the American home front during WWII…. the book is a page-turning adventure that sparked my mind and opened my heart.
—Author Amanda Skenandore (on The Physicists’ Daughter)

Absorbing and erudite, Wrecked is a powerful new edition to this long-standing, often awarded series.
Southern Lit Review (on Wrecked)

Fast-paced, well-plotted…those who like richly textured, character-driven mysteries will be rewarded.
Publishers Weekly (on Catacombs)
The Longchamp mysteries combine history and mystery in a gritty way that makes them feel different from most amateur-sleuth fare―dark-edged rather than cozy.
Booklist (on Undercurrents)

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
Learn more

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 Hertakes 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.”