Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 8/24/2023 + 1031 more book reviews

I know I haven't had this book on my shelves for 50 years (pre-teen me wouldn't have picked this up), but at least 30. Of course I didn't remember it but obviously I liked it enough at the time to keep it. It's a decent mystery/ Cold War espionage book, with good characters, good sense of place and steady pacing. It's set clearly in its time - someone actually says "groovy" in conversation, and everyone smokes, plus many other clues. The reader knows early on that Captain Jeffries was an innocent bystander to a more nefarious plot, and Wren gives us a number of suspects. Conan Flagg is believable as a sometime PI (I wonder how he gets jobs) and I liked the bookstore setting a lot, as well as the bookstore cat. It's a very quick read as well. This is the first of a series and since I have them all, I might as well go on to the next.

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