Our Woman In Moscow
I’m so excited to be part of this tour! Beatriz Williams is one of my lifetime favorite historical fiction authors, and her latest publication, Our Woman in Moscow, is now out in paperback!
Nothing says summer reading like a page turning novel. Espionage. Counter Espionage. Intrigue. Deceit. Mystery. Dynamic Female Characters. Honor -- Beatriz Williams has done it yet again with this smartly paced, intricately plotted historical fiction story.
As in any of Beatriz Williams’ books, she does a fantastic job of sweeping her readers back to another time and place. I absolutely loved the suspense and the mystery of it all as the story is told during the time leading up to World War II and into the cold war with Russia and is loosely based on the Cambridge spy ring and a fabulously dynamic cast of characters.
Our Woman in Moscow is a powerful book on many levels. Williams seamlessly wove the story between scenes of spying and family drama, and as always, it was well written and researched. have read all of Williams’ books over the years and I have enjoyed the way she transports me right into the story, history, and drama. I highly recommend this book!
Synopsis: In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?
Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain.
But the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.
