The Orange County Library System has published a guest blog by author Tess Gerritsen, an internationally best-selling writer of medical and crime thrillers including the Rizzoli and Isles series. She is scheduled to speak on April 24 at the 19th Annual Southwest Author Series presented by the Rotary Club of Dr. Phillips.
Gerritsen writes that when she and her physician husband moved to Maine 36 years ago, they had no idea they had landed in a community favored by retired spies. Over time, she learned of retired spies living on her street, married spies who were the parents of her son's best friend, and others who ran a restaurant, a bed and breakfast and the town library. It took three decades before a character, Maggie Bird, began speaking to her, leading to The Spy Coast and the Martini Club series.
The third book in the series, The Shadow Friends, is due in August 2026 and focuses on Ingrid Slocum, the cleverest of the five former spies, who is happily married to Lloyd, a retired CIA analyst. A man from her past, Rodrigo, a former CIA colleague and lover in Paris, reappears and asks her to join a top-secret mission she cannot discuss with anyone. Gerritsen writes that the book explores whether people are ever too old for temptation.
Press release issued by Orange County Library System:
https://ocls.org/ocls-blog/what-lies-ahead-for-the-martini-club/
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