An Unquiet Peace (eBook)

Shaina Steinberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
336 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
9781496747839 (ISBN)

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Mr. and Mrs. SmithmeetsCode Name Verityin this propulsive, quick-witted mystery set in late-1940s Los Angeles, as former WWII spy Evelyn Bishop and LA noir detective Nick Gallagher team up as an unconventional duo From the screenwriter ofBride Hardstarring Rebel Wilson! As an undercover operative for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, Evelyn Bishop routinely embarked on deadly missions. By contrast, civilian life should be simple. Yet Evelyn, now back in Los Angeles, struggles with the responsibility of being the new president of Bishop Aeronautics, when people see her as nothing more than a beautiful socialite. With Nick Gallagher, at least, Evelyn can be entirely herself. Once a fellow spy, now her fiance, Nick works as a private investigator. But the mission that first brought them together is not entirely over. Evelyn receives a call from her former commanding officer, who is overseeing the Berlin Airlift. He is concerned that the Soviets are trying to recruit Kurt Vogel, a scientist Evelyn and Nick smuggled out of Nazi Germany. After six long years, there's word his wife and daughter may have survived the war. Is this a chance for a long-promised reunion, or a Russian ploy to lure Vogel to their side? Past and present collide again when a routine case offers Nick a reunion with a childhood friend who runs a high-class ';gentleman's club.' The clientele includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to mobstersto a hidden enemy who will draw both Evelyn and Nick into a web as twisted and treacherous as any they have ever faced . . .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: A Bishop & Gallagher Mystery
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Schlagworte: 1940s • 1940s Hollywood • Aeronautics • Alan Hlad • Auschwitz • call girls • death camps • female sleuth • female spy • feminist historical mystery • French Resistance • gentleman’s club • heiress • historical murder mystery • historical mystery • Hollywood • Jacqueline Winspear • Jessica Fellowes • Jewish refugees • Los Angeles • Maisie Dobbs • Nazi Germany • nuclear scientist • Office of Strategic Services • OSS • post-wwii • private investigators • Second World War • socialite • Spies • Stephanie graves • Susan Elia MacNeal • V.S. Alexander • Women Engineers • World War II • WW II • WWII mystery
• ISBN-13: 9781496747839 / 9781496747839