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Mrs Spy

An evocative and exhilarating ride through 60s London, described as "The Thursday Murder Club for spies"
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‘Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down’ - Ava Glass Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the... Read More
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Mrs Spy

Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets. Perfect for fans of BLACK DOVES and SLOW HORSES - M.J. Robotham is the female answer to Mick Herron.

Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets. Perfect for fans of BLACK DOVES and SLOW HORSES - M.J. Robotham is the female answer to Mick Herron.

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‘Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down’ - Ava Glass

Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets.

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Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum.

She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises.

Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad 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 murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?

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‘A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer’ – Ian Moore

‘Mrs Spy is a delicious recreation of 1960s London... rich and well-constructed’ - Emma Flint

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035914234

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Aria

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 535g

Pages: 352

About the Author

A former journalist and midwife, Mandy Robotham swapped birth for books when her first novel was published in 2018. Since then, she has been a USA Today bestseller and a five times Globe and Mail bestseller, with seven historical dramas selling over a million copies. Branching out as M J Robotham, The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux was published in 2023 by Aria/Head of Zeus.

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