New York Times bestselling author and Carm el favorite Katherine Reay returns with her new book The Undercover Bo okshop.
\nDuring the winter of 1950 in the small Cotswold villa ge of Great Rollright\, amateur sleuth Gemma Brown starts to suspect that the town&rsquo\;s best baker\, Ursula Beurton\, is a Soviet spy\, tumbling her headlong into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that ends with a deci sion that will lead her to the Undercover Bookshop and change her life for ever.
\nRecently moved to the English Cotswolds\, Gemma Brown desper ately wants to create the kind of idyllic life she&rsquo\;s read about in her favorite mystery novels\, with herself as the leading lady. But fittin g in proves difficult as Gemma is more adept at solving mysteries and sett ing up the village&rsquo\;s first bookstore than she is at baking cakes or grasping social niceties. Nevertheless\, she finds a friend in Peggy\, a young woman recently moved to town herself\, and Ursula Beurton\, who is n ot only the village&rsquo\;s best baker but an enigmatic figure who sparks controversy in the small-town gossip network.
\nAs Gemma spends mor e time with Ursula\, she begins to suspect all those novels are affecting her thinking. The oddities she starts to notice must be her imagination be cause\, if not\, they point to something far more dangerous than winning t he local baking contest or being placed on the church committee. Could her neighbor be a real spy?
\nFollowing her instincts and a few skills learned through fiction\, Gemma soon becomes embroiled in an international intrigue involving the village&rsquo\;s mysterious benefactor\, Lady Marc hmont\, MI5\, and the KGB. In an unexpected twist\, however\, Ursula asks Gemma for a favor which may endanger all their lives as their next chapter unfolds in Gemma&rsquo\;s new venture\, the Undercover Bookshop.
\nFollowing the conversation\, books will be available for purchase and sign ing. Registration is required for this free author event. Presented by the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation.
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