Carol writes: Special Operations Executive wireless operator Marie survived being locked in a shed after a blind landing in the French countryside. After a week of secret radio transmissions to London, she is tasked with retrieving a package in the alleys of Montmartre, an action outside her purview. With a package of TNT strapped to her waist, Marie must navigate across Paris without the Germans spotting her. Will she meet her contact at the train station, then get back to her secret flat in a nearby small town?

Carol writes: Beecher White lives a quiet life working at the National Archives in Washington D.C. doing a job he loves—researching and protecting the nation's secrets. When his junior-high crush shows up looking for help finding the father she never knew, memories of his first kiss overwhelm his common sense. Beecher tries to impress Clementine by taking her into the SCIF where the President of the United States reads sensitive documents. There, he accidentally uncovers a 200-year-old secret from George Washington's presidency. As the dominoes begin to fall, Beecher and Clementine find themselves trapped in a conspiracy and running for their lives. The Inner Circle (Culper Ring #1), by Brad Meltzer, is a page-turner.

Carol writes: In Unintended Consequences (Stone Barrington #26) by Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington arrives in Paris late one night and is immediately chauffeured to the American Embassy. When he awakes the next morning, he has no memory of the past four days. Part millionaire businessman, part tough guy, part CIA operative, Stone has no idea why he’s in Paris or how he got there. When he discovers he’s been drugged, he's determined to get to the bottom of it. Soon, comfortably installed in the Plaza Athenée, Stone receives an invitation to a party given by a man he does not remember. So begins his quest to find out what happened—from Paris to Manhattan to Maine then back to New York City where the story climaxes in the Russian immigrant neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Unintended Consequences offers up lots of action, plenty of chases with fancy cars, and sexy spies from both the US and Sweden.

Carol writes: In Jacqueline Winspear’s A Lesson in Secrets, private investigator Maisie Dobbs goes undercover as a professor in a private college at the University of Cambridge, England. Maisie’s assignment is to report to Scotland Yard’s Special Branch and the Secret Service any activity that would not be beneficial to Her Majesty’s government. It’s the late 1930s and pro-Hitler organizations are growing and making themselves known throughout the UK. When the founder and president of the college is murdered, Maisie’s assignment becomes increasingly more complicated.

Carol writes: The Collectors, book #2 in The Camel Club series, by David Baldacci, offers readers parallel storylines—a three-part con resulting in the theft of millions of dollars and a puzzling death at the Library of Congress—that converge in a murder investigation conducted by the Camel Club, an unofficial watchdog group whose aim is to keep the U.S. government accountable to the American people.