It features an English aristocrat's daughter who works at London's top-secret home of code breakers, Bletchley Park, and a number of others with high-stakes plots and plans.' - Library Journal 'Suspenseful and thrilling, with some espionage too, this novel will keep readers deeply involved until the end.' - Portland Book Review ' In Farleigh Field delivers the same entertainment mixed with intellectual intrigue and realistic setting for which Bowen has earned awards and loyal fans.' -New York Journal of Books 'Well-plotted and thoroughly entertaining.With characters who are so fully fleshed out, you can imagine meeting them on the street.' -Historical Novel Society 'This story of war, love, and mystery is extremely suspenseful. '.well-crafted, thoroughly entertaining thriller.a game of spy versus spy, and with every twist and turn, the reader is unsure whom to trust.' - Publishers Weekly 'The skills Bowen brings to her several mystery series, including Molly Murphy and Royal Spyness, inform the plotting in this character-rich tale, which will be welcomed by her fans as well as by readers who enjoy fiction about the British home front.' - Booklist 'In what could easily become a PBS show of its own, Bowen's novel winningly details a World War II spy game. Can he, with Pamela's help, stop them before England falls? Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal. As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela's family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy.

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. ' -Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author Winner of the Left Coast Crime Award winner for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel.

'Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish-like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater.

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