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#ISpy for January @TheAromaofBooks

Here are all my faves for this month! All of them were 5⭐️reads, but there was just something special about Killers of a Certain Age. It was Golden Girls-meets-James Bond and I LOVED IT.❤️📚❤️

@Read4life

A group of retired spies must band together when one of their own is threatened. Maggie Bird is a chicken farmer who is visited by a mysterious woman asking about her past. When that same woman is found murdered in her driveway the next day, she and her spy friends must team up together to find the killer and protect their small town.

I picked this up on a charity stall, + it proved to be a cracking spy story that had me hooked to the last page. When John Craig, a yng American, bumps into a former professor in Paris, he hears a story of a nazi camp officer who everyone believed dead appearing on the same streets. When the pr is found dead, Craig is drawn into the hunt for a nazi who spied for Russia. Intricate plotting stands shoulder to shoulder with le carre, a joy of a find.

If you want a fun, fast read and are over a “certain age”, read this one! I‘m determined to keep with these ladies….

Thank heavens for Penguin books. These green paper backs keep the older crime, thriller alive and in book books.
This is set in the 60s and 70s Britain. Kept me reading. Certainly a labyrinth of a story.

Alex is a spy. He's not really good at it, but does his best. He's been run out of Austria as Hitler took it over, now he's wondering if Hitler is coming for Switzerland. He tries to do what he can to help the Czech spy network, and the French network, but the more he tries the less they take the info passed on and use it.

I really enjoyed this view of spies. No fancy weaponry, just yeoman doing what they can for their countries.

#WeekendReads @rachelsbrittain

For anyone who likes WWII novels, or spy stories, this is a great read. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, the setting, the intrigue. I learned a good bit about aspects of the war with which I was unfamiliar. A new-to-me author, I thought this was well written and definitely worth the time. Recommend.

Picture has nothing to do with the book; we visited a nature preserve the other day.