Animals of the French Species: A Lina Connerly Novel (Lina Connerly Thrillers, 2)

“Michelle Richmond is, simply put, a great storyteller.”—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Served Him Right New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond brings FBI agent Lina Connerly to Paris in this exhilarating novel of espionage and expatriate life—at once a white-knuckle thriller and a moving story of a mother and son rebuilding a life abroad Still grieving the death of her husband two years earlier, FBI agent Lina Connerly welcomes the chance to relocate to Paris with her teenage son Rory. Officially, she’s posted to the Embassy to liaise between American and French counterintelligence. Unofficially, she’s hunting Calvin Cook, a fugitive American intelligence officer who leaked classified documents, fled to Russia, and is now rumoured to be somewhere in France. Lina is still exploring expat life in Paris—Rory’s new school, the wonderful crêpes near their Haussmann apartment, the labyrinthine world of the embassy—when a celebrated American pastry chef gives her a lead on Cook, and, for the first time since her husband’s death, the possibility of romance.