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Oct 10

Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

ICYMI: My favorite Kate Quinn books center around strong young women proving their mettle during wartime crises, and The Alice Network ...

Sep 19

Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass

In the third Emma Makepeace novel, British spy Emma goes rogue in order to save world leaders and prevent an assassination at the hands...

Mar 27

Review of The Excitements by C. J. Wray

C. J. Wray's story of elderly British sisters who played key roles in fighting the enemy in World War II offers lots of heart, sassy...

Feb 28

Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen

A former CIA operative retires to small-town Maine--along with other former agents--to live out a quiet existence, until figures from the...

Sep 20, 2023

Review of The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass

Emma Makepeace returns with new enemies in her sights--but this time she must work undercover on a Russian oligarch's yacht without MI6...

Aug 9, 2022

Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass

Alias Emma is a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across hidden London, led by Emma Makepeace, a resourceful, tough, new spy determined to...

Jul 15, 2022

Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. Only...

Apr 22, 2022

Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world and books about spies specifically. My first Greedy...

Mar 9, 2022

Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe and Russia...

Dec 13, 2021

Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour of Hollywood, and it details the...

Nov 10, 2021

Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

ICYMI: Forty Autumns offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family memoir that reads like fiction. The...

May 6, 2021

Review of The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck

Robuck shaped the real-life figure of Virginia Hall into a courageous, idealistic, determined, and imperfect heroine I was intrigued by....

May 4, 2021

Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother and wife, was a legendary real-life spy who evaded capture by China, the Nazis, MI6, and the FBI. She...

May 3, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars years (and,...

Mar 12, 2021

Six Books about Brave Female Spies

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. Only...

Oct 5, 2020

Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees

Rees does an excellent job of taking us through Edith's amateur spy struggle and provides fascinating details of life in WWII Germany.

Oct 2, 2020

Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

01 Say Nothing 02 Just Mercy 03 The Spy and the Traitor 04 Catch and Kill 05 White Fragility 06 Hidden Valley Road

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