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Red Mistress

By: Elizabeth Blackwell
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
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Summary

In the wake of the Russian Revolution, a determined young woman breaks with her past to become a spy in 1920s Paris, where shadowy intrigues and a dangerous romance put her loyalty to the test.

In the spring of 1914, Nadia Shulkina, the daughter of Russian aristocrats, looks toward a bright future. She has no premonitions of war, let alone the revolution that is about to destroy her comfortable world.

Her once-noble family is stripped of every possession, and more terrible losses soon follow. To save what's left of her family and future, Nadia marries a zealous Bolshevik in an act of calculated reinvention.

It won't be her last.

When she agrees to work undercover for the Soviets in 1920s Paris, Nadia is drawn into a beautiful yet treacherous world of secrets and deceit. Beset by conflicting loyalties and tested by a forbidden love affair, she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that ends with a shocking murder. What chances will she take to determine her own fate?
©2020 Elizabeth Blackwell (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Espionage Historical Women's Fiction Fiction War France Mystery
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Not a Spy Story

The cover, name and synopsis would lead you to believe this was an exciting Spy Story. It's not. The female lead is barely a Spy and lacks any agency, competency or skill. Her motivations are poorly drawn and the plot is predictable and boring. The historical setting was the only saving grace. The narrator had a strange accent (mostly Britsh but with some jarring Ametcsn pronounciations)

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