Badass 75-year-old retired FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater is backstalking mobsters, dodging bullets, and pulling off Bond-worthy moves as she tracks down missing state secrets in this fun and pacy new installment in the Secret Lives mystery series
Ethels adventures will appeal to fans of Richard Osmans Thursday Murder Club series and Deanna Raybourns Killers of a Certain AgeLibrary Journal Starred Review
Ethel looks like Marple but acts like MarloweKirkus Reviews
Plucky Ethel is an elderly Nancy DrewPublishers Weekly
For seventy-five-year-old former FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater, her age is nothing but an advantage when it comes to ferreting out secrets. Who's going to notice the little old woman in the corner? Besides, Ethel might be officially retired, but she knows everyone in DC law enforcementand is smarter than all of them combined.
When a former colleague asks Ethel for help, she agrees without a second thought. But the favor throws Ethel back eighteen years, to the botched sting operation that resulted in the murder of an innocent young woman by a Russian gangsterand nearly ended Ethels own life too.
Soon, Ethel and her young tech-whizz sidekick Jesse, her double-first-cousin-twice-removed, find themselves in the crosshairs of some very badand very desperatemen wholl do anything to get their hands on the state secrets theyre seeking. Ethel will have to use all the skills shes learned during her long career if shes to save the day, and keep both herself and her beloved cousin alive.