Book Review : A Season for Spies by Iona Whishaw

This is a lovely book to read for those who enjoy thrillers with a hint of mystery thrown in. The Scottish countryside to the east of Edinburgh is the setting for this World War II story. Lane Winslow, just out of university, is tasked with snowshoeing thirty miles to the coast to meet a German double-agent who has a list of German spies in the UK.

Lane will stay at her grandparents house and take the agent with her. However, Lane isn’t aware that the Germans know about this meeting and have sent an assassin and a British traitor to kill the agent. The British intelligence services and their attitude of the time towards female spies is accurately portrayed as is the fawning attitude of society towards the aristocracy, even when the aristocratic family has Nazi sympathies.