Passport to Spy - Nancy Cole Silverman

 Passport to Spy - Nancy Cole Silverman

Release Date: June 6, 2023

She read

This is the second in the Kat Lawson mystery series.  I did not read the first, however, this worked well as a stand alone.

Kat, a one time investigative reporter, is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in Munich, Germany.  Her cover is as a writer for a travel magazine and her assignment is to try to find a hidden cache of valuable paintings stolen by the Nazis from Jews and museums and hidden by the father of a present day museum curator.  Soon Kat finds that she herself is being hunted by both sides of the law.  

This was a fast paced, quick read.  Although the basic plot was certainly plausible, I found the “spy”  action around it to be a bit over the top, far fetched, almost farcical.  I gave up viewing it as realistic and read it more as a “fun” read. Strange to say that about murder and mayhem, but………

This book was very interesting to me because the author’s notes mention that she loosely based the story about the stolen paintings on a true character, someone I was familiar with because I had seen his collection at a museum in Bern as it was being catalogued and researched for possible return to the rightful heirs of the original owners. I also enjoyed the very accurate descriptions of Munich and some of the surrounding Bavarian locations. 

Thanks to #netgalley and #levelbestbooks for the ARC.

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