Spy Stories

Nov 9, 2022

Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

I was interested in both of Martin's World War II storylines. The author's historical fiction romance-writing is evident here, in...

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...

Mar 1, 2021

Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya

Space! Robots! Artificial intelligence! Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always...

Feb 19, 2021

Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret has a dual timeline; the story is set in rural Scotland during World War II...

Dec 18, 2020

Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

01 The Huntress by Kate Quinn I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists, and I loved this book. Nina...

Dec 8, 2020

Review of The Course of All Treasons: An Elizabethan Spy Mystery by Suzanne M. Wolfe

Nick is an appealing character, I adored the detailed setting, and the mystery's resolution makes sense without seeming too easy. I'm...

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.

Sep 22, 2020

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition

What I'm reading 9/22/20: 01 Deadly Waters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook 03 The Silent Companions

May 15, 2020

Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.

Jan 1, 2020

Review of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life... by Tracy Walder

I love a peek at a secret world, and here Walder offers fascinating glimpses of her life as a CIA and an FBI agent.

Jun 30, 2019

Review of The Huntress by Kate Quinn

The character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail and a gutsy female pilot determined to help take down...

Mar 2, 2019

Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe

Wolfe's book was a fun, quick read that kept me engaged the whole way through. The Elizabethan-era detail in A Murder by Any Name was...

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