Mary Anna Evans – författare

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / BiographyThe first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie’s crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others’ dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie’s personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / BiographyThe first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie’s crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others’ dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie’s personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

Examining the works of Agatha Christie as she edited, revised and adapted them over the course of her career, this book undertakes a cross-examination of Christie’s writing to gauge her response to the evolving place of women in the world around her. With society’s laws concerning women and their legal status in dramatic flux, Christie experienced a transformation of every day structures as both an authorial witness and as a women affected by revolutionary shifts. Through the lens of feminist and adaptation studies as well as genetic criticism, Mary Anna Evans traces Christie’s shifting views across changes she made to her writing, putting her published words into conversation with unpublished notes, drafts, and correspondence held in public and private archives. Also drawing upon contextualisation from historical documents, Agatha Christie, Witness to the Evolution provides new insights into the work of this juggernaut of crime fiction, revealing her long-term interest in failures of the justice system and female vengeance. Covering well-known works such as Murder on the Orient Express, Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and little-discussed texts including “Magnolia Blossom”, “The Water Bus”, “Philomel Cottage”, “The Wife of Kenite” and “Swan Song”, the book forms ‘genetic dossiers’ of Christie’s writing and how they evolved. Featuring examination of Christie’s note-book pages and unpublished and performed dramatic adaptations of works including The Stranger and Hostile Witness, Agatha Christie, Witness to the Evolution is a cross-disciplinary, forensic deep-dive into her writing that is as insightful as it is important.

Next title in the Faye Longchamp Archaeological Mysteries. When tragedy strikes and everything she loves is threatened, Faye Longchamp, an expert in American archaeology, will resort to desperate measures. Because some losses cut to the bone…A murder mystery with an archaeological twist, Wrecked is:Florida-based mysteryPerfect for fans of James Lee Burke and Nevada BarrFor readers of archaeological mysteriesThe suspicious drowning death of Captain Edward Eubank breaks archaeologist Faye Longchamp's heart. It also confuses her, because he was found in scuba gear and she's never heard him even mention scuba diving. During their last conversation, he told her that he believed he'd found a storied shipwreck, but when Faye checks it out, she finds nothing there—not a plank, not a single gold coin, nothing. If there's no treasure, then why is her friend dead?But the situation quickly escalates beyond a murder mystery. Surrounded by a community struggling in the aftermath of a major hurricane that has changed the very landscape, Faye grapples not only with the loss of her friend, but with her fears for her daughter, who is being romanced by a man who may be very dangerous.As a professional with her own consulting firm, Faye had long ago given up her "anything goes" attitude when the law stood between her and an interesting dig. Now that recklessness is back. There's nothing she won't do to protect her daughter.In this riveting addition to an archaeological mystery and thriller series perfect for fans of Nevada Barr, Faye must save her most precious cargo—her daughter.

The Nazis are no match for the physicists' daughter.New Orleans, 1944Sabotage. That's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside the secretive Carbon Division be deliberately undermining the factory's war efforts? Raised by her late parents to think logically, she also can't help wondering just what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she assembles day after day have to do with the boats the factory builds...When a crane inexplicably crashes to the factory floor, leaving a woman dead, Justine can no longer ignore her nagging fear that German spies are at work within the building, trying to put the factory and its workers out of commission. Unable to trust anyone-not the charming men vying for her attention, not her unpleasant boss, and not even the women who work beside her-Justine draws on the legacy of her unconventional upbringing to keep her division running and protect her coworkers, her country, and herself from a war that is suddenly very close to home.