Thomas & Mercer
March 2025
On Sale: March 18, 2025
363 pages ISBN: 1662515162 EAN: 9781662515163 Kindle: B0CJW8GC47 Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Readers of The Spy Coast will recall that when former spy Maggie Bird retired to Purity, she settled in with her chickens to live a quiet life. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance. After a teenager vanishes—and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect—she joins the investigation, determined to prove her friend’s innocence. But the girl’s wealthy family pushes for an arrest. And when authorities discover a long-dead corpse in a nearby pond, the case becomes doubly complicated, with unthinkable ties to the area’s long-buried secrets. As Jo attempts to solve two mysteries by following the rules, the Martini Club turn to their arsenal of spy skills to uncover the truth.