You only sometimes come up against a more complicated plot than Where Eagles Dare. However, Manda Scott’s second book in the Inspector Inès Picaut series is a strong contender.

Crossing four generations, three decades and two continents, it is a beautifully crafted story of espionage that starts in Paris in 1943 and ends with the murder of an elderly woman in the car park of the Gare d’Orléans in 2018.

Sometimes profoundly moving and at other times quite frightening, you are left wondering how Scott wrote such a novel and how much of it is not conjecture but based on facts she has dug up from somewhere you don’t want to go to.

Recommend winter reading!​

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