My Week in Books – 28th April 2024 – What Cathy Read Next…

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – To celebrate Earth Day 2024, my spotlight post featured Land Marks: A Novel by Maryann Lesert.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was Unread Books On My Shelves I Want To Read Soon.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.

Thursday – I shared my review of the witty and thought-provoking satire, Mania by Lionel Shriver.

Friday – I published my review of historical novel, The Household by Stacey Halls.

Saturday – I shared my review of futuristic thriller, The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse.

Book cover of The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse

New arrivals

Dead Ground by Graham Hurley (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant – and abandoned – by a man she thought she knew.

Annie passes the rest of the war in a haze, her only consolation her relationship with mysterious Republican fighter Carlos Ortega. Annie finds herself caught up in Ortega’s world, a web of intrigue, which leads to her recruitment into MI5.

On her first mission, Annie must pose as Ortega’s wife and head to Algeciras. Hitler’s Operation Felix – his plan to control the Mediterranean and force Churchill to the negotiating table – has been set into motion, and the ‘couple’ must help prevent the Nazis from seizing Gibraltar.

But Ortega has secretly been working for the Nationalists, part of Madrid’s Fifth Column. If it falls to Annie – and Ortega – to save the day for the Allied cause, can she trust a man who has changed sides yet again?