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Cosy Thrillers
Every great performance hides a secret.
Glamorous, witty cosy thrillers about actresses, secrets, and a delightfully chaotic secret society.
Vivienne Knox writes glamorous, witty cosy thrillers about the women you would never suspect.
Her novels follow British actresses recruited into The Behn Circle: an eccentric secret society of women who have been quietly influencing British intelligence since the seventeenth century, named for Aphra Behn, the playwright and spy. The Circle’s intelligence work is first-rate. Its filing system is a national security risk for entirely the wrong reasons.
Vivienne is a private sort of author. She will tell you something interesting if you ask the right question, and she would like it noted that she has never abseiled from anything.
The Velvet Intelligence is set in the glamour of Cold War-era London: the West End stage, embassy parties, and the drawing rooms of European diplomacy. It follows one of London’s most celebrated young actresses from the moment she is recruited into The Behn Circle to the heart of a conspiracy that is equal parts dangerous and absurd.
The Circle’s methods are unconventional. Its members are brilliant. Its internal politics would give MI5 a migraine.
The Art of Influence brings the Circle into the modern age. The Cold War is over. The Behn Circle is not. A new generation of actresses and cultural figures takes on its evolving work, in a world where reputation, media, and influence are the weapons that matter.
The stakes have changed. The filing system has not.
The Velvet Intelligence, Book One
Coming 2027
London, 1968. The most celebrated young actress in the West End is handed a theatre programme with a note tucked inside. The note is not about the performance. By the end of the week she is the newest, and most reluctant, recruit of The Behn Circle.
The first Velvet Intelligence novel.
The Art of Influence, Book One
Coming Soon
The first Art of Influence novel. A new generation, a new decade, and a secret society that has survived everything except its own filing system. Coming soon.
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