Kate Quinn on sale

Kate Quinn’s *The Briar Club* is being pitched to readers again this week as a discounted hardcover, with Target listing it at $17.05 against a $30 list price and Amazon showing a $22.50 sale price on recent product pages. (target.com) (amazon.com) The novel was published in hardcover on July 9, 2024, by William Morrow, and Kate Quinn’s site describes it as a story set in a Washington, District of Columbia, boardinghouse in 1950 during the McCarthy era. (bookbrowse.com) (katequinnauthor.com) Quinn’s publisher copy and retailer listings both frame the book around female friendships, secrets, and political suspicion, with the plot centered on Briarwood House and a violent event that forces the residents to choose “who is the true enemy in their midst.” (katequinnauthor.com) (amazon.com) The book’s current sales push lands after a strong first year in the market. BookBrowse lists *The Briar Club* as first published in July 2024 and notes a paperback edition released in July 2025. (bookbrowse.com) Reader interest has remained high well past launch. Goodreads shows a 4.28 average rating from more than 267,000 ratings and more than 24,000 reviews, and lists the novel as a 2024 Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Readers’ Favorite Historical Fiction. (goodreads.com) Mainstream reviews helped define the book’s appeal early. Target’s listing reproduces a *People* blurb saying Quinn balances “the outward cheerfulness of the 1950s” with observations about racism, misogyny, homophobia, and political persecution. (target.com) Other reviewers emphasized the same mix of genre and history. KQED described the novel as a murder mystery set during Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare, with room for Quinn to explore subjects ranging from the birth control pill to corruption in Washington. (kqed.org) Quinn has also kept the book visible through book-club materials on her own site, including discussion guides, recipes, and a playlist, and she posted a separate book-club push when the paperback hit shelves in July 2025. (katequinnauthor.com 1) (katequinnauthor.com 2) That leaves the current moment looking less like a surprise rediscovery than a second retail cycle: a bestselling historical novel, a lower sticker price, and a book-club-friendly backlist title getting another round of attention. (katequinnauthor.com) (goodreads.com)