A review by kjcharles
Best Kept Lies by Helena Maeve

I like Helena Maeve's writing and her style. She has a knack for bleak, half-empty men and a Deighton/Le Carre sort of spy world with moral bankruptcy and betrayal at every turn. This is quite a sex-heavy story of Russian agent vs British agent, lots of attraction and deception, first part of a series and definitely reads like it, with no conclusive ending and a lot more yet to play out. It felt more like the first third of a big book than a complete novella to me, honestly, but I'll be wanting more.