Why we’re excited
Eleanor is a private nurse who travels into Washington each week to look after rich clients. A security officer stops her on a towpath and tells her to spy on Anna, a diplomat in her care; refusing would put Eleanor herself under suspicion. The longer she watches Anna, the more she likes her, which makes the job far harder.
Flynn Berry wrote Under the Harrow and Northern Spy, novels that put ordinary women inside political danger and keep the tension quiet and close. This one moves her focus to the American capital. It suits readers of spy fiction who care more about loyalty and conscience than gadgets.
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What to know about A Good Man on a Dark Night
We haven’t reviewed Flynn Berry before, so this would be our first look at their work.
At 272 pages it is shorter than most thriller books out in January 2027, where the typical length is about 352 pages.
From the publisher
In New York Times bestselling author Flynn Berry’s gripping new thriller, an ordinary woman is ordered to spy on a suspected enemy of the state—or become one
A private nurse. A mysterious patient. A dangerous secret.
Every week, Eleanor commutes from her house in the countryside to Washington, DC, to visit her wealthy, powerful patients. On a warm spring morning, an officer from a shadowy security agency approaches her along the canal and orders her to inform on one of them, a foreign service officer named Anna.
Eleanor faces an impossible Will she destroy another woman’s life, or her own? Anna is suspected of hiding a shocking secret, but she appears warm and trustworthy. Despite all Eleanor is risking, an unlikely friendship starts to form—and when she learns that her assignment is even more sinister than it seemed, their fates become dangerously entwined. Will Eleanor fulfill her mission to spy on a suspected enemy of the state, or become one?
A masterly new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of four acclaimed novels including Northern Spy and Under the Harrow, A Good Man on a Dark Night is both a riveting page-turner and a rich exploration of womanhood, friendship, and love in an era that threatens all three.
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