Thank you so much to Netgalley and Read Forever Publishing for the chance to read Lady Codebreaker by K.D. Alden. This book was absolutely amazing. While a work of historical fiction, the story is based on Grace Smith, the woman from a small town in Indiana who developed and used her codebreaking skills to bring down Prohibition gangsters, WWI spies and WWII Nazis. Her work and the work of her husband helped found the present-day CIA.
Give yourself a minute to start and settle into this story and you will be so thankful. Once I was in, I could not stop reading and admiring Grace. Alden weaves many decades of stories together seamlessly, jumping between the past and 1958. I really didn’t know much about the codebreakers so the research Alden put into this was fascinating. I also was totally absorbed by the story of Grace’s life–her marriage, her children, her balance of life and work in a time when a working woman was frowned upon. I’m so glad to know her story–it deserves to be told. Alden also beautifully handles the mental health themes that really aren’t told about that time period. I know I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time. 5 golden stars.
About the Book:
432 pages, Paperback
March 12, 2024 by Forever
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