A Hidden Affair
Release date: 2010 / 297 pages
First line: I gaze across the veranda, beyond the rows of yachts and sailboats bobbing in the Porte de Monaco toward the sparkling Mediterranean waters.
Synopsis (from back cover): “Still reeling from the betrayal of those closest to her and the revelation that her college boyfriend Jared is still alive, Jordan Weiss resigns from her State Department post and sets out to find him. Her search takes her all over Europe and embroils her in a wine counterfeiting ring that involves a very valuable, very rare, vintage than disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France during WWII…”
Review: What a happy surprise to find this sequel waiting in my mailbox after the 4th of July weekend! I had read Jenoff’s first novel (Almost Home review) and been swept away by the characterization and setting.
Fortunately, this follow-up matches its predecessor in pace and depth of characterization. The setting includes a variety of European countries, from Monaco to Austria to Greece, and is so perfect for the big screen. I rarely see movies of books I’ve already read, but I would love to see the setting, so lovingly described in Almost Home and so glamourous in Affair, portrayed in spectacular technicolor. I’m not sure who I would cast as Jordan — I think Jenoff is smart to leave her appearance to our imagination, allowing the reader to vicariously become a globe-tracking, courageous ex-secret agent.
I cannot reveal much about the plot without spoiling the delightful twists and turns of this well-wrought tale of suspense. But I enthusiastically recommend this follow-up thriller as a delightful summer read, and no need to read Almost Home first. Jenoff provides enough scaffolding so the two could be read in either order…
Interested? Simply drop me a comment and I’ll choose a winner soon! 
I would love a chance to win this won. I have enjoyed jenoff in the past.
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Please enter me if the giveaway is international. I would LOVE to read the book.
thank you
Misha
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This would be a new author for me. I love suspense and A Hidden Affair sounds really good. Thank you for the giveaway!
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this sounds like a winner; count me in. and who won last week’s book, i never heard.
thanks,
theresa
I’d love to read this. I’ve become a fan of Pam’s books just recently, and really enjoy her books. Thanks for the entry in your giveaway.
Sandy
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This sounds like a great story – please include me!
This sounds like a great book. Please include me in your drawing, and thanks so much.
This would be my first time reading something from this author. Please enter me for a chance to win. Should I read the previous novel?
Please enter me in the contest – sounds good!
I’d love a chance to win this book!!!
My kind of book – count me in!
Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love to read A Hidden Affair and comment on it. I enjoy novels that take the reader to foreign places especially to places in Europe.
By the way, our book club has decided to read a book I suggested, Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry. Would you please send me your discussion questions for that book ASAP. We’re discussing it Thursday. thank you.
Gloria
I would love a chance to win this one.
Please enter me.
Thanks
I could *so* use a riveting novel to take me away right now! Please enter me in your contest.
Thank you!
Sounds like one to add to my reading list!
Please count me in!
Sounds very interesting in experiencing the travel and the connection to the WWII Nazi’s. Would love to read this book!
i have her 2 other books and based on your review they just got bumped to the top of the tbr!
please enter me..thanks
Thanks for the giveaway. Sounds good. I bought the other one, Almost Home but haven’t read it yet-this makes me want to get a move on!
Thank you for not revealing anything regarding the plot, it makes me want to read it even more.
Would love to win this book. It sounds like it would be a really interesting read.
The storyline is in the era that I just love to read about.
I would really like to win and read this novel.
This suspenseful novel sounds great–count me in!
Such a great response to this novel! I’m so glad… Just wish I had many more copies to give away, too!
Renee — You do not need to read the first one, but this novel “solves” the mystery of the first one a bit so you may want to…
Theresa — On Saturday I posted Neva as the winner of last week’s Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, but I’m still waiting for her response so I may have to choose a new winner! We’ll see…
I would love to have a chance to win a copy of this book. If you choose another winner for Boy Who Harnessed the Wind can I be entered in that too? I have been wanting to read that book for a long time! thanks!
I would love to win this!
Thanks.
This book sounds great! I would love to be the winner! Thanks for the chance.
nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net
This is a new author to me. The book sounds exciting. Thanks for the giveaway.
Sounds intriguing! Is a new author for me. Will be sharing this option with my book club!
No need to enter me, but I enjoyed this one as well. Great review!
I’d love to enter, looks and sounds great!
I would love to read this!
I’d love it. Thanks for the giveaway.
Great Giveaway! This book sounds like a great read.
New author to me. Please consider me for copy of this book. thanks.