Fantastic narration and a great story. If you’re looking for a fun, interesting mystery that will keep you guessing without the gore or sex, this book is for you! Really enjoyable listen. I definitely recommend! Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to an advanced copy!

I have been an Ashley Weaver fan since I read book one of the Amory Ames series. I became a bigger fan when I discovered she was a fellow librarian. Always looking forward to the next book Amory book, I was so excited to find that she was beginning a new series featuring Elecktra McDonnell. A young lady from a family that walks a thin line between theft and locksmithing. Set in a different time with a heroine from a different class, Weaver has shifted gears but the action and adventure is just as thrilling.

Set at the start of WWII in London, Elektra "Ellie" McDonnell, has a run in with Major Ramsey. The major needed her uncles help with a job and Ellie became involved. In book two the major is back again asking for help. This time a young lady was recovered from the Thames with an unusual bracelet locked on her arm.

Another theme running through the books is the mystery of Ellie's mother. She had been convicted of murdering Ellie's father but seems to have been innocent. Ellie is looking for clues as to what really happened that day.

Working as a librarian, you always have go to authors to suggest to patrons and Ashley Weaver is mine for historical mysteries! You won't be able to put them down or in the case of this audio book you will listen on the edge of your seat! The narrator does an amazing job voicing the characters and staying in accent for each one. I couldn't get enough!

Really enjoyable spy mystery set during WWII. Did not feel I missed anything by starting with book two in the Electra McDonnell series but plan to go back and read/listen to the first book. As always, Alison Larkin was excellent as the narrator.
Also loved the cover, that it what drew me in.
Looking forward to book three.

I really, really enjoyed this audiobook! It hooked me from chapter one and kept me hooked the entire time!

Ellie McDonnell has been given a choice, spend some time in the lockup, or agree to help with Britain’s war efforts. It’s 1940 and Great Britain is under siege, Major Ramsey needs Ellie to use her stealthy breaking and entering and problem solving techniques to determine whether a body found in the Thames was a British spy…or a Nazi one. Ellie is excited, and a little apprehensive, she’ll be able to use her special skill set to uncover the truth, but she’s also aware that someone had this unidentified woman killed. Could solving the crime put Ellie in the sights of a killer? A highly enjoyable historical mystery