Libby Clark Mystery series by Diane Fanning (#01~3)
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Overview: Diane Fanning is the author of 14 true crime books, 11 mystery novels and has been featured in 3 anthology collections. She has been a consultant for 48 Hours and been on numerous other television shows including 20/20, the Today Show and Deadly Women. She lives in Bedford, Virginia, with her husband and a Sheltie named Emmitt Otter.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
The story in this book is a work of fiction. The characters, with the exception of cameo appearances by historical figures, are fictitious as well. The Secret City, however, did exist. It was created out of forest and farmland by the federal government in the early 1940s as part of the war effort. It was not on any map.
As the United States entered World War Two, military and industry began a partnership to end that war by developing a weapon more fearsome than any ever seen before. They established one of their top secret development facilities on 52,000 acres of Tennessee land in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. In a far shorter time than anyone would have thought possible, they built a secret fenced-in city of 70,000 residents dedicated to ending the war. Corporations recruited chemists and engineers from all over the country along with a huge cadre of high school-educated women to work as Calutron girls. The scientists knew they were working with Uranium, but only the top management among them knew the final goal of the facility. The Calutron girls knew even less. They were trained to monitor and adjust calibrations of the control panels but had no idea what their adjustments affected.
Originally, it was identified as the Kingston Demolition Range, in the announcement of its existence that Congressman Al Gore sent to his constituents. It was then called the Clinton Engineer Works. We know it today as Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In this high-security environment, people with disparate geographical locations, education, upbringing and social standing were tossed together in close proximity, breaking down the barriers that kept them apart in the real world.
It was a happenstance of dormitory room assignments that brought together country girls Ruth and Irene Nance and the more urbane and highly educated chemist Libby Clark. What happened in the Secret City intertwined their lives and transformed all three women.
1. Scandal in the Secret City
Oak Ridge, Tennessee is known as the Secret City. It rose seemingly overnight in 1942, built by the US government. No one was quite sure what its purpose was, but there was certainly something going on . . . Libby Clark, a gutsy Bryn Mawr graduate, is determined to find her place as a scientist in a world where women are thought better suited to housework and marriage. As the only female scientist in the top-secret facility, Libby is excited to begin what she believes is important government research. But she soon discovers that something more sinister is afoot. One frosty night she finds the dead body of her roommate’s sister sprawled behind the bleachers. The police don’t seem to think finding the killer is important, so it’s up to Libby to make sense of the situation. Aided by a band of like-minded scientists, Libby follows every possible lead . . . even as they take her to a shocking conclusion.
2. Treason in the Secret City
May 30, 1944. In the middle of the night, Libby Clark is roused from sleep by a colleague in distress. Marvin’s cousin Frannie has been charged with treason, and he hopes that Libby, with her clear-headed scientific mind, can find a way to help prove her innocence. Libby, a chemist at a secret World War II facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, agrees to help her friend and pursue the truth. Libby’s investigations soon uncover the immoral Dr. Hansrote, who has tricked Frannie into her treachery. But the evil at Oak Ridge seems to run deeper, and in Libby’s determination to uncover the truth, she not only finds herself up against the authorities, but also caught in the crosshairs of a deadly cabal of indoctrinated spies, greedy opportunists, and unscrupulous collaborators.
—Can Libby survive the confluence of challenges? Or will one of them fashion a trap she cannot escape?
3. Sabotage In The Secret City
May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become president, the Allied Forces are closing in on Berlin and the research scientists at the secret facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, are doing their bit to bring the war to as swift a conclusion as possible. But does the end justify the means? Libby Clark has mixed feelings about the horror she and her fellow scientists are labouring to unleash on the citizens of Japan – and it seems she’s not the only one to have doubts. A campaign of small acts of sabotage convinces Libby that one of their number is deliberately trying to delay the mission. But when the pranks turn deadly, Libby is forced once again to turn undercover sleuth in order to unmask the traitor within, prevent further deaths and keep the focus on ending World War II.
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