Charlotte St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on her was to a “Swiss solution” with her mother in the aftermath of WW2 when she meets Eve Gardiner and her “man of all things,” Finn. Struggling to make her own choices for her life, still grieving the suicide of her soldier brother, and desperate to believe her fondest cousin Rose has survived the war, Charlie takes off on a search with Eve and Finn that has the story weaving in and out of the world of female spies in World War 1 occupied France, culminating in a revenge bloodbath in 1947. I liked the female spies part. The love story between Charlie and Finn was charming and satisfying to this feminist who rankles at the strictures those before me had to endure. But the villain and the revenge and the bloodbath just left me cold. I didn’t care. That’s on me. Author Kate Quinn did an admirable job and I’ll thank her for introducing Louise de Bettignies, Queen of the Spies, to me.
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