The bestselling, ‘gripping’ (Entertainment Regular), ‘powerful’ (Hypable), ‘absolutely thrilling’ (Paste.com) winner from the Edgar Prize for Best Small Adult Mystery, perfect for visitors of Kristin Hannah and Ruta Sepetys

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her times procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to spending customers, her nights hiding the real character of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking second mourning her boyfriend, who was wiped out on the Dutch entrance about Girl in the Blue Coat lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think about her illegal work as a small work of rebellion.

On a program delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meats or kerosene, Hanneke is usually shocked from the old woman’s frantic plea to find a person–a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen have been hiding, that has vanished without a track from a magic formula room. Hanneke initially wants nothing to do with such harmful work, but is normally ultimately drawn into a internet of mysteries and amazing revelations that business lead her into the heart from the level of resistance, open her eyes towards the horrors of the Nazi war machine, and compel her to take desperate action.

Amazingly written, intricately plotted, and meticulously researched, Girl in the Blue Coat can be an extraordinary novel about bravery, grief, and love in impossible times.

*Don’t miss Monica Hesse’s latest masterwork of historical fiction: The War Outside*