From the author of the "lively and spirited" (Providence Journal) Wine Country Mysteries comes the first in a new series featuring a savvy female photographer whose husband's abduction embroils her in the world of international espionage and lost Romanov art treasures.
When photojournalist Sophie Medina returns to London from an overseas assignment, she discovers that her husband Nick, a geologist and covert CIA operative, has been abducted. Three months later she is shocked when a friend in the British government says Nick was spotted in Moscow and is now not only a suspect in his boss' murder but also potentially involved in illicit Russian oil deals. With her every move now closely watched, Sophie moves to Washington, DC, to be with family and friends.
There Sophie is drawn deeper into Nick's shadowy world. While photographing an exhibit of two never-before-seen Faberg├® imperial eggs at the National Gallery of Art, Sophie is confronted by a Russian oil tycoon, implicating her former husband. On the run from Nick's enemies, Sophie plays a high-stakes game of Russian roulette as she tries to determine friend from foe and prove her husband's innocence.
Weaving together political intrigue, art history, and espionage, this fast-paced story marks the start of a promising new series.
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“This one is right up my alley—Fabergé eggs, Russians, andpolitical intrigue—all of which keeps you absolutely intrigued, ready for thegut punch. Ellen Crosby certainly has a talent for making the conventionalwholly unconventional. You’re going to enjoy this one.”
— Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author
“Fantastic! You are sucked in from the very beginning. With a globe-trotting mystery, a great heroine, and a possible international scandal, the story will have you eagerly anticipating the next book.”
— RT Book Reviews (4½ stars)“Crosby introduces photojournalist Sophie Medina in this assured tale of love, loss, and secret agendas…Crosby offers a complex portrait of our nation’s capital, with its historic beauty and roiling underbelly of deceit and danger.”
— Publishers Weekly“In a departure from her Virginia Wine Country series former news correspondent Crosby introduces Sophie Medina, a photojournalist whose CIA-operative husband, Nick, has disappeared…A solid thriller.”
— Booklist“Ellen Crosby has segued from wine to international espionage without missing a beat. Her new book combines old-fashioned deduction with up-to-the-minute spycraft and gives us, in Sophie Medina, a doughty heroine who will be charming readers for years to come.”
— Louis Bayard author of The School of NightBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Ellen Crosby is the author of the Virginia Wine Country Mystery series and the Sophie Medina Mystery series, as well as the stand-alone novel Moscow Nights. She is a former freelance reporter for the Washington Post and was the Moscow correspondent for ABC Radio News and an economist at the US Senate.
Caroline Shaffer is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. A former company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for nineteen years, she received an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.