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MY REVIEW
For years, I have known Tess Gerritsen as the author of the Rizzoli and Iles novels. I have watched the TV series for years, and continue to watch the reruns to this day. After reading The Spy Coast, I am thinking that I love The Martini Club, a group of ex spies that have settled in the small town of Purity, Maine.
They will come out of retirement, when Maggie Bird’s past comes calling. She tries to keep them out of it, but they could use a little excitement in their lives. They will travel from Maine to Thailand to Turkey to London to Malta, as Maggie tries to put her past to bed once and for all.
Jo Thibodeau, Purity’s police chief is on the case and she’s like a dog with a bone. She knows that Maggie is hiding something and keeps her eyes on the gang.
Maggie loves her life as a chicken farmer. Will she ever be able to return to Maine? Will they all manage to traverse the dangers and come out the other side in one piece? Well, it’s The Martini Club series, so what do you think?
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen.
GOODREADS BLURB
A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.
Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement.
But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. This “Martini Club” of former spies may be retired, but they still have a few useful skills that they’re eager to use again, if only to spice up their rather sedate new lives.
Complicating their efforts is Purity’s acting police chief, Jo Thibodeau. More accustomed to dealing with rowdy tourists than homicide, Jo is puzzled by Maggie’s reluctance to share information—and by her odd circle of friends, who seem to be a step ahead of her at every turn.
As Jo’s investigation collides with the Martini Club’s maneuvers, Maggie’s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career that spanned the globe, from Bangkok to Istanbul, from London to Malta. The ghosts of her past have returned, but with the help of her friends—and the reluctant Jo Thibodeau—Maggie might just be able to save the life she’s built.
- Genre: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
- 341 pages, Kindle Edition
- First published November 1, 2023by Thomas & Mercer
- Setting: Maine (United States), Bangkok (Thailand), Istanbul (Turkey)
- Series: The Martini Club #1
ABOUT TESS GERRITSEN
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.
While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, “Adrift”, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), and The Bone Garden (2007). Her books have been translated into 31 languages, and more than 15 million copies have been sold around the world.
As well as being a New York Times bestselling author, she has also been a #1 bestseller in both Germany and the UK. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon.) Critics around the world have praised her novels as “Pulse-pounding fun” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “Scary and brilliant” (Toronto Globe and Mail), and “Polished, riveting prose” (Chicago Tribune). Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the “medical suspense queen”.
Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.
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