Lily Summers is assistant the Tate Gallery's Modern Collections keeper Diana Gilden. After the great Pablo Picasso passes away, Lily and Diana work to plan an exhibit honoring the painter's legacy. In mere days after his death, opening day has arrived. Only without thinking, Lily sees one of Picasso's hanging pieces and declares it a… Continue reading The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay
Luisa Voekler is a CIA code breaker in 1980s Washington, D.C. Even since she was a young girl, she’s excelled at solving puzzles and deciphering messages. Her grandfather made sure to cultivate those skills. Having been raised by her grandparents who emigrated from Berlin when she was a child, she doesn’t know much about her parents. She was told they died in a car accident. And her grandparents have always been tight-lipped about their life before America. Despite her remarkable performance and exceptional intelligence, she’s stuck deciphering messages from WWII. But while helping a coworker with her assignments, she notices a symbol on one of them – one that she’s seen before on her grandfather’s mail. Unfortunately her grandfather has passed and cannot reveal what connection – if any – exists between the letters at the CIA and the one she saw years ago. And when she begins to investigate, she realizes there’s more to her family’s history than she was ever clued in on. The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay is a dual-timeline, dual POV historical fiction novel in which Luisa gets closer to finding the truth and the danger that held her family prisoner for decades. Read more
