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Review: Perfiditas (Roma Nova #2) by Alison Morton
A lot has changed in the seven years since we first met the very unlucky Karen Brown. She has now completely embraced her true identity of Carina Mitela and she is now living as a Roma Novan. Carina has married Conradus (AKA Conrad) and since the last novel, they have advanced in their careers within the PGSF (Praetorian Guard Special Forces). Conrad has just been made Legate which is basically the Chief within the PGSF and Carina is also a Captain in the Strategy Section. Their marriage is solid but their careers are complicated. They also have their children to protect and provide for….but that is a fact easier said than done. Carina must prevent a conspiracy that not…
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Review: The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent (Maggie Hope Mystery #4) by Susan Elia MacNeal
Maggie Hope has been under the spell of the ‘black dog’ for what seems like an eternity. Her depression and post traumatic stress are taking over her life. She can hardly remember what life was like before she became a spy and had her life turned upside down. She’s been throwing herself into her work as a trainer at an elite spy institute in Scotland, trying to escape the ‘black dog’. Maggie has nothing to distract her but her work. John Sterling and her are not on speaking terms, her mother faces death at the Tower of London, and as a spy she doesn’t have ‘friends’ that she can talk to…
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Review: The Bone Church by Victoria Dougherty
I recently had the pleasure of reading quite a few historic thrillers. It’s kind of a new genre for me but books like The Bookman’s Tale and The Lincoln Myth have piqued my interest and made me want to give the genre a shot . I have also started reading a lot of spy novels as well, so when The Bone Church came around for review I couldn’t resist the unique combo of spy novel and historic thriller! Wartime Prague is the stage where our novel is set. A pair of fugitive lovers, Felix Andel and Magdalena Ruza, make a bargain with a Catholic cardinal in 1956 to smuggle a woman from Czechoslovakia. The other half…
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Review: Suspicion by Joseph Finder
Danny Goodman is a single dad who wants to provide his daughter with the very best things in life….at any cost. Sadly, that cost is rapidly mounting. He can no longer afford to pay her private school tuition and has no one to turn to for any financial support or to borrow money. Just when he is in desperate straights, a solution presents itself. His daughters new best friend has a very very wealthy father. In fact he’s one of the wealthiest men in Boston. When Thomas Galvin offers Danny $50,000 as a charitable gift, he sees no harm in accepting it.
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Review: The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone #9) by Steve Berry
All is not as it seems. A simple phrase that could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Abraham Lincoln must make a choice, keep the secret or not. He could save thousands or have the country torn apart…..Lincoln alone holds the power. Retired agent, Cotton Malone is asked by his former boss to do a favor. It sounds relatively cut and dry, but as soon as he agrees he realizes this is a bit more involved than he originally expected. Unbeknownst to him, his girlfriend is also being recruited for this ‘favor’. This only complicates matters further as she is in deep cover.
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Review: Rasputin’s Shadow by Raymond Khoury
In the coal mines of turn of the century Russia, a group of unsuspecting workers suddenly and completely without warning they all turn aggressive, violent, and paranoid. Shortly following the strange and savage incident, a scientist and Grigory Rasputin blow up the mine to conceal all evidence of the incident. In modern day New York City a Russian diplomat seems to have jumped to his death. Though it appears to be a suicide, there are some tell tale signs that he was more likely pushed from the window. The owners of the apartment Leo Sokolov, a retired physics teacher from Russia and his wife, are also missing. FBI agent Sean Reilly is…
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Interview: Rasputin’s Shadow by Raymond Khoury
As part of the Rasputin’s Shadow blog tour, author Raymond Khoury has done a fabulous Q & A! Without further ado, please welcome Raymond Khoury to The Lit Bitch! Q: RASPUTIN’S SHADOW is a great mix of technology, history, and action, but there is a little romance too. How do you work to balance these in the novel? A: I guess it just comes from practice, really. I’ve been a storyteller for years, whether in screenplays of in my previous five novels, and I suppose it’s just a personal preference for how to tell a story, for the pacing, for having a gut feeling about when those different aspects should…
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Review: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
In Russia, the Cold War has never really come to an end. The young Dominika Egorava has been training as a ballerina since she was a little girl but when an accident leaves her unable to continue dancing, she must look other places for a way to support herself. Her father is dead and her mother lives in an apartment which is maintained by her uncle, Vanya, who is the head of Russian Intelligence. When Vanya sees Dominika at her father’s funeral, he sees her beauty and sees it as a way to manipulate a source he has been after. Vanya approaches her and asks if she would be interested in helping him gain…
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Review: The King’s Deception (Cotton Malone #8) by Steve Berry
Everyone knows Elizabeth I was one of the most influential rulers of England. She defeated the Armada, never married and was thus known as the virgin queen. But what if what you thought you knew about her was all wrong? What is she, wasn’t really a she after all? What if Elizabeth I was a man in drag? That’s the controversial stance that Steve Berry explores in his exciting new spy novel, The King’s Deception. Cotton Malone has more or less retired from the world of international intrigue, espionage, and spy games and now runs a second hand bookstore in Denmark. His fifteen year old son, Gary, has just learned…
