I enjoyed this story of retired spies and lots of intrigue. I felt it was a little slow in the first chapters but I had a hard time putting the book down by the middle of the book. I loved Maggie and her friends in the Martini Club. I liked Jo. I enjoyed the action. ( )

I am a sucker for the "former spy now retired and living a peaceful, quiet life but pulled back into a part of her life she thought she had left behind" genre. ( )

A group of ex-CIA agents have retired to a small community in Maine, where they live quietly as regular citizens, until someone comes looking for one member, Maggie Porter. She is threatened and has to go into hiding in order to find the people from her past who are after her. Parts of the plot are interesting and the ending gets exciting, but Maggie doesn't have a very dynamic personality and spends a lot of time dwelling on the past and bemoaning getting older. This is nowhere near as interesting a series as the Thursday Murder Club. ( )

Old CIA agents are being hunted ( )

Great easy read. I think I will really like this new series. The setting is rural, northern Maine in the small town of Purity. Unbeknownst to long timers of the town, a small group of retired CIA spies have settled in their town, hoping to enjoy their retirement, away from constantly being on the edge. They call themselves the Martini Club. Of course, they never really can let their guard down, and of course, they like to hold information close, while they assess most situations, and of course, if something suspicious should occur, they are ready to jump into action; and something does.
Maggie Bird hears that someone is asking about her, and when she returns to her home from an outing, that person is in her house. An acquaintance/partner has disappeared, has Maggie heard from her? Why after 16 years are they asking her? A body ends up dead on her driveway and it soon is apparent that the Martini Club will be coming out of retirement. ( )