A Shadow in Moscow

A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay is a clean Cold War spy novel told in alternating points of view. It follows Ingrid Bauer, who moves from postwar Vienna to Moscow and begins passing intelligence to Britain, and Anya Kadinova, a Soviet student who returns to Moscow after studying in Washington, D.C. and later shares secrets with the CIA. Set in Vienna, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. across the 1950s and 1980, the story centers on women caught between loyalty, family, and survival as the KGB closes in. It’s a tense historical suspense novel with espionage, danger, and no explicit content, a good fit for readers who like intelligent, character-driven stories.