The Innocent Spy

By Laura Wilson

Book Overview

Diana Calthorp is a society beauty, escaping a loveless marriage by doing just a little spying for MI5. Ted Stratton is a working-class copper, poking with little passion into the death of a sad, middle-aged woman. In an ordinary world, their paths would never cross, but the war has turned the world on its head. When the two start chatting, they discover they have more in common than one might imagine. Both of them are running up against very peculiar and very solid roadblocks. Could collaboration help find ways around the obstacles?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937384098
• ISBN13: 9781937384098
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyed it

I enjoyed this book. Although it was a bit slow moving, that seems to fit the time period and place: World War II London. DI Ted Stratton and MI5 agent Diana Calthrop (inspired by real life agent Joan Miller) are embroiled in murder, espionage and blackmail with the London blitz as a constant background. There has been some criticism of the flaws in the character of Diana. True, at times I wished I could slap some sense into her, but realistically, the upper class young women of the time truly were that naive. They went from privileged, sheltered lives into wartime jobs with little, if any, training. The rules they lived by changed and they had to find a way to cope with these massive changes. I recommend this to readers of British police procedurals, World War Two stories, and historical mysteries. It is said to be the first in a series focusing on DI Stratton.

Innocent Spy

It was an interesting plot but I'm not sure if the heroine was realistically illustrated.