The Martini Club · Book 3
The Shadow Friends
- Published
- 25 August 2026
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780857508515
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Shadow Friends is scheduled to follow on 25 August 2026 at 368 pages, the third entry to date in Tess Gerritsen's ongoing Martini Club series. It continues retired CIA operative Maggie Bird's partnership with local detective Jo Thibodeau in coastal Maine, following The Spy Coast (2023) and Gerritsen's shift from her long-running Rizzoli & Isles procedurals toward a cast of formidable retired-spy women in their sixties and seventies.
Its place in The Martini Club
The Shadow Friends is book 3 in the The Martini Club series. It follows The Summer Guests. See the full The Martini Club reading order.
Maggie Bird runs a quiet bed-and-breakfast in coastal Maine, hosts a weekly cocktail hour with a tight circle of women friends, and used to be a CIA operative — a past that catches up with her when a body turns up near her inn and drags her back into the world of tradecraft alongside her equally retired, equally lethal drinking companions. Tess Gerritsen launched the series in 2023 after finishing her long-running Rizzoli & Isles run, trading Boston's homicide unit for a cast of women in their sixties and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780857508515