A Perilous Perspective by Anna Lee Huber

Normally peaceful neighbors are hostile, seeking someone to blame for the losses they’ve endured.

Someone has been sending her anonymous threats, and Verity’s Secret Service contacts can only provide unsettling answers.Įven deep in the Yorkshire Dales, where she joins Verity’s family for the holidays, Ilse encounters difficulties. After years in war-ravaged Germany, Ilse has returned to England to repair her fragile health-and to escape trouble. Then Verity’s beloved Great-Aunt Ilse lands on their doorstep. A relaxing few weeks by the seaside with her husband, Sidney, could almost convince Verity Kent that life has returned to the pleasant rhythm of pre-war days. Officially, the Great War may be over, but this is a battle of nerves and wits they cannot afford to lose.Īll is far from quiet on the home front in national bestselling author Anna Lee Huber’s captivating mystery series, in which former Secret Service agent Verity Kent receives a visitor-who is being trailed by a killer. But the victim was connected to British Intelligence, and possessed papers detailing the sinking of a gold-laden German ship during the war.Īs Verity and Sidney dig deeper, they discover their cases are intertwined-and a lethal adversary persists. The murder of a Belgian lawyer aboard a train seems at first to be a simple case of revenge. And Verity, too, is called to investigate a mystery. As threats remain, the French authorities soon request Sidney's help with a suspect who claims to have proof of treason-shortly before she is assassinated. But even that false calm is about to end. March 1920: Life has turned unsettlingly quiet for former British Intelligence agent Verity Kent and her husband, Sidney. For even as a new decade dawns, the shadow of The Great War persists. The 1920s are off to an intriguing start in USA Today bestselling author Anna Lee Huber's thrilling mystery series featuring former Secret Service agent Verity Kent.

A Perilous Perspective by Anna Lee Huber