2018 School Spending Survey Report
Midnight on the Scottish Shore
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Plenty of readers will be hooked at the idea of Scottish romance; add in spies and little-known World War II history, and Sundin (Embers in the London Sky) has penned another historical hit. Cilla van der Zee chafes as a Dutch citizen under Nazi rule but gets in over her head when she infiltrates the Nazi party on behalf of the Resistance. To get herself out of a jam, she agrees to train with the Abwehr in Germany, planning all along to escape to England and disappear for the war’s duration. Landing near Skapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, she is greeted by a grumpy Scot in a kilt who promptly turns her in as an enemy combatant. Forced to help with MI5’s Double Cross program, Cilla is less free than ever.
VERDICT With shifting loyalties, a global geopolitical stage, family feuds, the legend of the Scottish selkie, and a forbidden romantic attraction, this novel has many of the best elements of historical fiction. Readers will also notice a few cameos from Sundin’s previous novels. For read-alikes, try the sweeping historical dramas of Amanda Dykes and Cathy Gohlke.
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