Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of One Final Turn in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: June 3, 2025
Summary:
The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs.
Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all but lost hope in ever seeing him again until Major Ramsey, the British military intelligence officer she had been working closely with over the past few months, shared the news he’d intercepted.
Nothing will stop Ellie from finding her cousin, not even the awkward experience of having to travel to an unknown country with Ramsey after he’d dismissed her for being untrustworthy just as she’d realized she had fallen in love with him. Under the supervision of Captain Archie Blandings, a charming intelligence officer based in Lisbon, Ellie meets with undercover operatives to track down where Toby might be hiding from the Nazis and whether they are too late to safely recover him, all the while fighting her feelings for Ramsey and the incessant burden of war looming around her at every turn.
My thoughts:
I’m so bummed that this is the fifth and final book in this series. I have enjoyed this series immensely and while I loved the resolution to the series, I’m bummed that I no longer have any new stories to look forward to with these characters I have come to love!
I think this is the series that made me fall so in love with historical mysteries. Weaver does such a fantastic job bringing the past to life in such an engaging way while also giving us such an engaging plot. And let’s not forget all the endearing characters we’ve met along the way! While each book was a self-contained mystery, there were those threads that wove throughout the series and now we finally have all the answers we needed.
I wanted to read this one slowly and savor my last time with these characters, but also I wanted to hurry up and find out how it would all end. It was quite the dilemma and I did a little of both…a hurry up and slow down and I was greatly rewarded with everything. My only regret is now it’s over.
If you enjoy historical mysteries, witty banter, a little romance and great characters that you can’t help rooting for, this is a series you must read. But I implore you to read it in order…it really does work better!
Books in this series:
- A Peculiar Combination
- The Key to Deceit
- Playing it Safe
- Locked in Pursuit
- One Final Turn
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