Publisher: Aria and Aries
Release date: 15 May 2025
Back cover blurb: Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum. She’s a spy, a covert operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a very angsty teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death. But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him. As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the dangerous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?
Mrs Spy isn't your typical spy novel, mainly because Maggie Flynn isn't your typical spy.
In fact if her husband hadn't died, she would probably still be working as a store detective, blissfully unaware of the world of espionage, and concerned only with her Mother’s identity crisis and her teenage daughter's obsession with the Beatles.
I will admit, it took me a little while to get into this novel, but once I did, I was hooked.
Maggie's spy career to date is mainly as a 'watcher', or what is more commonly known as surveillance.
She knows how to trail a suspect without being seen, how to disguise herself at the drop of a hat (sometimes literally), and how to lose someone if she herself is being tailed.
In another life, she would be prepared for anything. But a chance meeting with a mysterious foreign agent has Maggie questioning her own career choice, and that of her late husband.
It seems like he may have endangered himself in a bid to help others, and Maggie finds herself in the same boat, with a colleague, Frank to keep her company and help her out of some of the stickier situations that she finds herself in.
Can they uncover the truth before it's too late?
Or will Maggie ultimately go the same way as her husband?
Mrs Spy is available now via Amazon online and all good book shops.
Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.