You're listening to all the Backlist weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Vanessa V.S., this is episode 426.5 and today I'm going to tell you about two

books that are really great for breaking you out of a reading slump if that is a thing that you need.

That's what they did for me when I read both of these books and they're very different from one another.

One is a really delicious thriller that kind of flashes a little bit back and forth between past and present

for this really twisty ending set in Ireland.

And the other is a witchy book set in this horrifying puritanical society that feels a little too real,

if you know what I'm talking about.

Before I tell you entirely too much about both of those as I want to do, let's hear from Mars Buster.

Today's episode is brought to you by Amazon Publishing.

Londoner Madeline Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Guy Martin.

As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future.

Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France.

Staying behind to join the resistance, Guy sends his family to England, yet nowhere is safe, not really.

After a devastating tragedy, Madeline returns to France holding on to the hope of finding Guy alive.

There she must endure and fight to survive.

Bestselling author Reese Bowen returns with a heartbreaking, hopeful historical novel with the Paris Assignment.

You can learn more at amazon.com slash the Paris Assignment.

Pick up the new book for a story of a courageous wife, mother and resistor who confronts the devastation of World War II.

Thanks again to amazon.com for sponsoring this episode.

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