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The Counterfeit Wife (Revolutionary War Mystery #2) Author: Mally Becker Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery & Suspense Publisher: Level Best Books Release Date: 2022 Pages: 313 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Philadelphia, June 1780. George Washington’s two least likely spies return, masquerading as husband and wife as they search for traitors in Philadelphia.      Months have passed since young widow Becca Parcell and former printer Daniel Alloway foiled a plot that threatened the new nation. But independence is still a distant dream, and General Washington can’t afford more unrest, not with food prices rising daily and the value of money falling just as fast.      At the General’s request, Becca and Daniel travel to Philadelphia to track down traitors who are flooding the city with counterfeit money. Searching for clues, Becca befriends the wealthiest women in town, the members of the Ladies ...

The Turncoat’s Widow: A Revolutionary War Mystery Author: Mally Becker Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery & Suspense Publisher: Level Best Books Release Date: 2021 Pages: 355 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she’s a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British—quite a tidy way to end her disastrous marriage, the village gossips whisper.      Everyone knows that her husband was a Patriot, a hero who died aboard a British prison ship moored in New York Harbor. But “everyone” is wrong. Parcell was a British spy, and General Washington—who spent that winter in Morristown—can prove it. He swears he’ll safeguard Becca’s farm if she unravels her husband’s secrets. With a mob ready to exile her or worse, it’s an offer she...