One Child in Berlin

A Stella Bled Thriller, Book 3

De: A.W. Hartoin

Narrado por: Justine Eyre

November 1939

It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early.

The earl uses his influence to make her a courier, a job well below her skills, but it's not as simple as it seems. The new head of the service isn't convinced of her worth and Stella has to use the opportunity to show him that she and other women can deliver for Britain or she's out on her ear.

That would be enough to make any newly minted spy nervous, but the earl isn't done. He has a favor to ask and the request sends Stella to a place that will haunt her forever.

©2020 A. W. Hartoin (P)2021 Tantor

Trilogy

I listened nonstop to the three books in this trilogy.
Very entertaining and well narrated by Justine Eyre, these are a good WWII addition to the genre.

Stella's adventures continue

Hartoin gave us another suspenseful story to add to Stella's repertoire. This time she is proving her worth to Mrs. Churchill and making a stand for the ability of women to "do the job." The things she had to do to find one small child in the middle of WWII. I really enjoyed this book. I continue to look forward to more Stella's adventures.

Interesting but scratching my head a little

The first two installments of the series were fast paced with intense moments fighting NAZI’s. In this installment, when Stella was set up for tense moments fighting NAZI’s, she spent most of there time serving drinks and commiserating. It left me a little confused. Great narration and the book was well done…but I was left wanting something that at times I felt I didn’t get.

a complete surprise

You have to start with Book 1 (this is book 3) but the series is one of the quickest reads I have ever read. This is due to the fact that once I started it, it was hard for me to stop it for things like sleep and showering. I am looking forward to the 4th book because this author is riveting in her storytelling!

NEW FAVORITE WW2 Heroin!

AW Hartoin has done it again with her 3rd Stella Bled Lawrence book. Great characters, great story, fantastic and accurate WW2 depiction. My new favorite author. Narration also A+. I could listen to Justine Eyre read anything. She is as good as Saskia Marleveld!

The most amazing book yet of the series!!

I’m so pleased with this book, it’s such a great addition to the series! It made me cry and laugh. This author is amazing! I can’t wait to read more about these characters. I am so enthralled in the story.

thoroughly enjoyed

I had no idea that this was going to be a line of many books for the Stella thriller but it was so good. all three books and I have thoroughly enjoyed them and hope for more...

Good trilogy but…

I wasn’t sure about this trilogy at first, the first book just seemed like they were always running, running, running with no real story line except a silly quest to get a book to a friend’s family, a mission that got lots of innocent people killed . And it was also hard to take Stella’s role seriously knowing she was just 18. The second book was also a lot of running, lol, and also seemed a bit silly in that Stella was dead set on finding the book owner’s family and again, lots of people getting killed for no real reason. The third book was much better with an actual fascinating storyline but honestly it was hard not to laugh and be distracted by the author’s apparent fixation on the main characters feet, since as they had been in the previous books they seemed to again be a major player in the plot and were always a constant and irritating part of the storyline, I mean, it was as if her darn feet were actual characters in the book and they were always, frostbitten, bloody, torn, cut, infected, blistered, bandaged, swollen, wet, oozing, being soaked in medicinal baths or tended to by a doctor etc. it was nauseating and never ending. I could have done without the constant references to her feet altogether and it really added nothing to the plot because she kept running no matter how disgustingly infected and bloody her feet were. But when I could stomach all that the rest of the story was great.