Ten novels that use momentous events as a catalyst

Suzanne Rindell received her Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University in spring 2018. She is the author of the forthcoming historical mystery, The Two Mrs. Carlyles.

At CrimeReds, Rindell tagged ten novels that use large-scale events as a catalyst, including:

Fever by Mary Beth Keane

Catalyst: Infectious Disease

Typhoid…another infectious disease that wreaked havoc with each outbreak. And I suppose history has solved the “mystery” that is Mary Mallon—”Typhoid Mary,” the asymptomatic carrier who infected 53 people in the New York area. The book is driven in part by this famous historical outbreak (or series of outbreaks, really), and how difficult it can be to comprehend the reality of being an “asymptomatic carrier.” Mary Beth Keane seeks to restore humanity to a much-maligned historical figure.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Page 69 Test: Fever.

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