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.
Key facts about The Shadow Friends
The Shadow Friends is a novel by Tess Gerritsen. Readers have had it since 25 August 2026. It runs to 368 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Shadow Friends. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780857508515 to find the main one.
The Shadow Friends is book 3 of 3 in The Martini Club series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The Spy Coast (2023). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
Additionally, Tess Gerritsen writes Rizzoli & Isles as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and espionage thriller shelves. It is also the latest published Tess Gerritsen book on file.
About Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is a Chinese-American novelist and retired physician, a Stanford graduate with an M.D. from UCSF, who started writing fiction while on maternity leave and published her first novel, Call After Midnight, in 1987. See every Tess Gerritsen book in order.
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