Entertaining as it is emotional, this quick read is a not-so-covert winner.

only carries her so far as she realizes no one can be trusted-everyone knows more than they let on. Both flawed and redeemed, Livy’s assertive M.O. Spitfire highlights the roles that women played during WWII, and the toll it took on them afterward, even as well-loved espionage themes show up here in full force. Huie does a great job of recreating Post-War England and France, while wielding a distinctly modern heroine. Now, Livy spends her days proofreading a column for well-behaved ladies, and her nights alone with black market vodka. When Livy crosses paths with Ian Fleming-yes, THE Ian Fleming-and an opportunity arises to track down the traitor who killed the only man she ever loved, she returns to Paris. During World War II, she quickly became one of the toughest agents in France, but her war ended with betrayal and the execution of her lover. This taut spy thriller begins with V-E Day in 1946 London and its gutsy heroine, Livy Nash, reaching for a drink. Modiano’s style has a haunting effect that will have you questioning whether he’s reinvented the unreliable narrator, or exposing our own unpredictable nature. If you get the chance to read it in French, even better. His translated crime fiction novel Missing Person (from Rues des Boutiques Obscures) presents Paris at its darkest-both in the physical sense, portraying every café and chance meeting on a bridge in a cloud of suspicion and figuratively, as his narrator pursues the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. Winner of the Prix Goncourt & Nobel Prize in Literature 2014, French author Patrick Modiano is not well known among English-speaking audiences-but that should change. Missing Person by Patrick Modiano ( Rues des Boutiques Obscures) Get transported to Paris’ atmospheric arrondissements in each of the following stories. Dead end pedestrian streets, loose cobblestone, underground lairs, and mass graves stemming from epidemics offer up the perfect setting for a tense narrative. Despite being the subject of countless romance and literary fiction novels, the City of Light also wields the dark and disturbing ambience for thrillers.

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