City of Dreams by Don Winslow - second in the trilogy which started last year with City on Fire. This is the second instalment in the story which started on Providence, Rhode Island, where Danny Ryan is now on the losing side of a turf war and takes his family to California to start a new life- but of course it doesn’t work, the Mafia, the cops and the FBI all want him dead or in prison - but the Feds track him down and ask him to do them a favour which could either make him a fortune or get him killed. Don Winslow is one of the best - such a shame he’s giving up writing to start a career in political activism and keep Trump out of office. (Though hope he succeeds!)

The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly. She’s done a series of historical fiction, all of which have a colour in their title and started with Lilac Girls which I adored. This is more WW2 fiction which is what she’s so good at…….two women - one American and one French - work together as spies in the French Resistance, but when they’re finally caught they’re sent off to Ravensbruck concentration camp where of course awful things happen. Ten years later they meet up again and embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love.

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City of Dreams by Don Winslow - second in the trilogy which started last year with City on Fire. This is the second instalment in the story which started on Providence, Rhode Island, where Danny Ryan is now on the losing side of a turf war and takes his family to California to start a new life- but of course it doesn’t work, the Mafia, the cops and the FBI all want him dead or in prison - but the Feds track him down and ask him to do them a favour which could either make him a fortune or get him killed. Don Winslow is one of the best - such a shame he’s giving up writing to start a career in political activism and keep Trump out of office. (Though hope he succeeds!)
The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly. She’s done a series of historical fiction, all of which have a colour in their title and started with Lilac Girls which I adored. This is more WW2 fiction which is what she’s so good at…….two women - one American and one French - work together as spies in the French Resistance, but when they’re finally caught they’re sent off to Ravensbruck concentration camp where of course awful things happen. Ten years later they meet up again and embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love.
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