![]() ![]() Will I ever get tired of Hazel and Daisy’sĪntics? NOPE. Stevens (Puffin, Octover 2018) is the seventh book in the Murder This one – and felt the ending to be genuinely surprising. This is when the novel takes a turn into a twisterific bona fide spy thriller Operative who doesn’t acknowledge who she is, she knows there is somethingĪfoot. When she then bumps into a former (former?) In the 50s, the book shows a country being rebuilt and a Juliet who Main mission concerns the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathisersĭuring World War II (which often – to my surprise – strikes as eerily topicalĪnd timely). There is of course a darker side to this novel: Juliet’s Juliet’s voice is direct, non-nonsensical and often even funny (especially when Late teen to relishing her role as a spy (for all the fear and misgivings), Super great about the book is Juliet’s voice: from joining MI5 as a somewhat naïve (and later as an undercover operative) to ten years later, in a post-war London When she is 18 years old and recruited into the world of espionage as a transcriber The book mostly goes back and forthīetween the 40s and the 50s, following the narrative of Juliet Armstrong – from ![]() It’s Kate Atkinson’s Transcription (Little, Brown and Company, September 2018), a historical thriller about spies The two I have for today happen to be historical novels set in the early 20th century. I have been catching up with books from 2018 that I never got around to reading then and will be writing mini-reviews for those I highly recommend. ![]()
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