When Iris writes to Ruth, she asks her to come to Moscow to help with the baby she’s about to have. The KGB suspects Sasha of being a double agent but have no proof.

He and Iris started dating and soon she was pregnant with his child and they got married as Italy started to get into the war. Sasha had worked with their brother Harry at the Embassy in in Rome in 1940, when the sisters first met him. It’s rumored she and her husband Sasha Digby defected to the Soviet Union, with their children. It’s about her twin sister who went missing 4 years ago. In 1952 Ruth Macallister gets a visit from an FBI agent named Sumner Fox, an ex big-time football player at Yale. Set in the time of the cold war, a woman risks everything to save her twin sister Iris and get her out of Moscow. I wanted to hear a little more of her side of the agenda.Whether she writes by herself or with her friends Lauren Wiig and Karen White, author Beatriz never writes a bad novel….never. Despite being a KGB agent, I felt I understood her struggles and agenda. I did want to hear a little more from Lyudmila’s timeline. The back-and-forth between timelines kept me intrigued and wanting more. Despite its length, Our Woman in Moscow was a quick read for me. I have not read a book by Beatriz Williams before, and I was a little daunted at the length of her books. Each woman faces the demands and issues of their life in different ways as they deal with husbands, lovers, jobs, and children. Lyudmila is watching and waiting the family in order to prevent the escape. Ruth gets recruited by the sexy Sumner Fox to help retrieve Iris’ family from Moscow.

This part of the story is intersected by their lives during the Cold War era with Ruth in New York, and Iris in Moscow. Lyudmila is a single mom raising her daughter while also fulfilling her role as a high-ranking Russian KGB agent.īeatriz Williams follows the story of the two Americans, Ruth and Iris, as they visit their brother in Rome during WWII. Iris is her beautiful, yet slightly more “girl-next-door” twin, who stands up for herself and her lovers and can surprise anyone with her inner strength and bravery. She runs a modeling company on her own and knows how to use her feminine wiles to her advantage. Ruth is the beautiful independent single woman who takes no crap from anyone. There are three main characters, and each one is so developed and real, that you can’t help becoming attached to each one. Loved this book! Our Woman in Moscow creates strong female characters that are both relatable and flawed.

Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams