Idris Elba Says ‘Luther’ Film Is Finished

Here’s one for readers of complicated, gut-punching, legal cases and family dramas. Leila Syed was in charge of taking her young nephew and dropping him off at his nursery school. But on the way to work she’d gotten a call from her architecture firm about an “emergency” with a presentation she was giving that morning. It’s how she was so distracted that she left her nephew in the car on the hottest day of the year. It’s a complicated, more than one thinks story, told in three parts, including the court case.

For fans of historical mysteries, women groups, and interesting jobs. Set in Virginia, 1943, we start with a group of women working as code breakers, including one who technically was given a dead woman’s identity – which will obviously complicate things. The women are all very different from each other but come together with one goal: solve the murder of a woman. A crime scene they stumbled across when they went out to find one of their own who hadn’t come home. Soon it’s clear this is a serial killer and the women spend their days working to break codes for the war and their off hours following clues, joining with a reporter, and doing their best to catch a killer. So clearly they’re also putting themselves in danger! I really loved the women, friendship, the sapphic love story, the details of their breaking codes, and rooting for each one of them. Bonus: Natalie Naudus and Kelsey Navarro do an excellent job narrating the audiobook.

(TW date rape drug use, no assault/ murder victims raped, not on page nor detailed/ antisemitism/ attempted sexual assault)