Mrs. John Doe (Nora Baron, #1)
This is the first book in the Nora Baron series. She is relaxing on the widow’s walk of her house overlooking the Long Island Sound. She and her husband have been married more than twenty years and have a daughter, Dana, in college. Their life is idyllic with the occasional worry when her husband Jeff is out of town but for good reason. Jeff is an intelligence officer.
Things turn upside down when she receives a telephone call that her husband Jeff has died in a car accident and must make arrangements to fly to London to identify the body. After visiting the morgue, she is attacked by a purse snatcher in the park. During dinner with a friend, she receives a coded message to meet tomorrow in Paris. She knows instantly Jeff wrote it. What has she gotten herself into and where is Jeff?
The book is written in third person in the past tense. The story is face paced and the characters are developed. If you like mysteries with strong women characters, you will enjoy this book.