Spies and danger!

Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell #3) by Ashley Weaver         

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Whew! Well that ending has just opened the proverbial can of worms! 🪱🪱

But back to the main event! Electra McDonnell, our ex safe cracking thief, who’s had several missions now with British Intelligence, is contacted by Major Ramsey (be still mine and Ellie’s beating heart!) to go to the port of Sunderland, with a copy of Northern Birds of England under her arm, and await orders. 

It’s 1940 and the game is afoot once more!

Ellies’s walking towards her accommodation when she’s jostled from behind into the path of a lorry.

Fortunately a man grabs her, just in time! Is this deliberate or accidental?

Ellie later sees that same man lying dead on the road near the rooming house she’s staying in. He’s collapsed, frozen in the moment, with a small amount of foam bubbling around his lips! A piece of paper is clasped in his fist. Ellie surreptitiously liberates it.

Now she’s in a strange town, a strange boarding house, a dead man, and with no idea about what’s going on.

Ellie’s new mission will be dangerous but that’s not going to stop her. A possible Nazi counterfeiting ring is operating. Ellie has a few surprises of her own, old contacts that will be revisited. New acquaintances made.

A deadly game of catchup and cat and mouse ensues that has Ellie and Major Ramsay on their toes. 

Another electrifying Electra read from Weaver.

A St. Martin’s Press ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.