Ellen Crosby is a former reporter for The Washington Post, foreign correspondent for ABC News Radio and economist at the U.S. Senate. She has spent many years overseas in Europe, but now lives in Virginia with her husband. She is the author of the Wine Country mysteries and the Sophie Medina mysteries. The latest in the Wine Country mystery series is Bitter Roots.
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At CrimeReads Crosby tagged seven favorite Russian spy novels, including:
The Secrets We Kept by Lara PrescottRead about the other entries on the list--and learn about Crosby's adventures in the Soviet Union during the Cold War--at CrimeReads.
A terrific thriller that garnered an Edgar nomination for Best First Novel and was inspired by the true story of a CIA plot. Irina, a Russian-American secretary from the Agency’s typing pool, is assigned to smuggle the greatest love story of the twentieth century—Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago—into Soviet Russia where it had been banned. Mentored by a glamorous, experienced CIA agent, the two women become involved in unexpected ways, but also prove once again the powerful belief that there are books that can change the world.
--Marshal Zeringue
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