WickedGirl's Book Notes

Daniel Silva's fourteenth Gabriel Allon novel: when London art dealer Julian Isherwood finds his colleague Jack Bradshaw - a former British intelligence officer turned art trafficker - tortured and murdered at a villa on Lake Como, Allon, the Israeli spy and master art restorer, is pulled in by the Italian Art Squad to recover a Caravaggio stolen in 1969, and the hunt leads through the Geneva Freeport and a private Austrian bank to the looted billions that Syria's Bashar al-Assad has hidden across Europe.

The true story of the secret World War II operations between Shetland and Norway. A gripping account of courage, danger, and resistance during the Nazi occupation.

A practical guide for women looking to step into their power and pursue their ambitions. Tara Mohr offers tools to quiet your inner critic, recognize your unique calling, and take bold action.

A compelling philosophy for technology use in the modern age, arguing for a minimalist approach to digital tools. Cal Newport makes the case for being highly intentional about which technologies you allow into your life and how you use them.

A touching story about a grieving mother, a teenage runaway, and an eccentric clairvoyant who brings them together in a small Colorado mountain town. A gentle tale about loss, healing, and the bonds between mothers and children.

Tana French's 2007 Edgar-winning debut and the first book of the Dublin Murder Squad series: in 1984, a twelve-year-old boy named Adam Ryan walked out of the woods outside Knocknaree, near Dublin, with the blood of his two missing friends in his shoes and no memory of what had happened to them; twenty years later, the man he has become - Detective Rob Ryan, the same boy under a different name and with an English boarding-school accent - is assigned, with his partner and best friend Detective Cassie Maddox, to investigate the murder of a twelve-year-old ballet student named Katy Devlin whose body has been found on the stone altar of an archaeological dig in the same woods, and the case is the long return of a memory Rob has spent two decades not having.