Dear Natalie Walters, Cybil Langford is working as a spy/informant for a private secret organisation, trying to get information about her employer, Earl Edmond. Bennett Bradley works for the FBI and is undercover as “Craig Miller” a shady financial expert who helps criminals move and launder money. He is after ... more >
When confidential informant Erin Daniels is abruptly pulled off an insider trading investigation and sent across the country with just a few hours’ notice, she’s definitely not expecting her new assignment to involve infiltrating a smuggling ring in a . . . suburban mommy group? She’s also not expecting to ... more >
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new ... more >
Content notes: Domestic violence Dear Diana Biller, Set in Vienna in 1877, Hotel of Secrets is something of a departure from your previous two novels. For one thing, there are no ghosts or supernatural elements in this book (unless one counts a family legend about “the man“). Maria Wallner is ... more >
Janine: Megan Whalen Turner completed her Queen’s Thief series two years ago, and the essays, stories and vignettes in Moira’s Pen, a new collection of set in the same world and featuring some of the same characters, are a bit like the big crumbs and smears of ganache left on ... more >
The astonishing untold story of the author’s father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day. When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved ... more >