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PoindexterOglethorpe

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18. The Cost of a Hostage by Iona Whishaw.

Sun Jun 15, 2025, 05:50 PM

Jun 15

It's the twelfth in the series, featuring Lane Winslow who'd been a spy in WWII. The series starts in 1946 or 47 when Lane arrives in rural Vancouver to leave that old life behind and start a new one. Then a dead body shows up on her land, and things go from there.

This current one involves the character Lane needing to go to central Mexico because her husband's brother has been kidnapped. I like the series a lot and like how Whishaw is developing her characters.

As it happens, Iona and I were good friends in high school, so enjoying her books is a double treat.

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That means it stays at the top hermetic Jun 15 #12

Thank you, hermetic! MIButterfly Jun 15 #15

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Sounds like a good day hermetic Jun 15 #13

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