MYSTERY

The Quiet Librarian

Mulholland. Feb. 2025. 320p. ISBN 9780316566315. $29. SUSPENSE
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In 1995, Bosnian Muslim teen Nura Divjak watched Serbian soldiers slaughter her parents and younger brother while she hid. Fleeing her home to avenge her family’s deaths, Nura joined a militia group to take guerilla action against the Serbs, becoming a fierce fighter known as the Night Mora. When she’s captured, she assists another teen, Amina, in a daring escape, and the two are sent from the country for their safety. Given a new identity as Hana Babic, she ends up in Farmington, MN, where she hides as a librarian. Then a police detective informs her that Amina has been murdered and has left her grandson in Hana’s custody. With a warrant out for her arrest in Serbia, Hana realizes that her past has caught up to her, and now it’s up to her to protect Amina’s grandson and finally take revenge on the men hunting her.
VERDICT Eskens’s (The Life We Bury) novel alternates between two timelines: 1995 Bosnia and present-day Minnesota to tell the brutal story of war and its repercussions 30 years later. Fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale or Kate Quinn’s books will be caught up in this violent story of a courageous woman.
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