Bestselling Farnham spy novelist Ava Glass releases new book

Written by Farnham spy novelist, Ava Glass’s new book, The Hiding Season, promises to have you on the edge of your seat.

“She’s seen too much. Now nowhere is safe.” Got you hooked? Find out more in the latest spy thriller from ‘insider’ Ava Glass.

Ava has sold more than two million copies of her books about the world of female spies based on her firsthand experiences having worked in British intelligence for almost a decade.

Dubbed the “female heir to James Bond” by James Patterson and “the Queen of spy fiction” by The Guardian, this fourth novel explores the damage spies do to those who accidentally cross their path.

The Hiding Season follows an ordinary woman running for her life after she witnesses the murder of one of America’s most powerful senators.

Escaping from a broken marriage, Maya Landry moves to the gateway to the Rocky Mountains, working at an exclusive private ski resort in the off-season. Her new quiet life is going well until she stumbles across a dead body.

She races down the mountain to get help but when she returns with the police, the body is gone and no-one believes her. A call later from an FBI agent tells her that if she doesn’t leave the state tonight, she’ll be dead by morning. But can she trust those she thinks are helping her?

Ava (not her real name) worked with MI6, MI5 and the FBI, has signed the official secrets act, been befriended, vetted and duped by spies, seen everything from the real Bond Girls – Britain’s brigade of female spies, participated in terrorist simulations on British soil where the British Government blow up more buildings than a Mission Impossible film so spies can practice for the real thing; and has some brilliant stories to share from the secret spy nod, secret spy doors, to why not to tussle with a spy in public.

Prior to working with MI5 and MI6, Glass had a career as a crime reporter in the USA covering murders and kidnappings alongside the FBI and has written for the New York Times and Reuters. Ava also frequently appears on BBC Radio 4 and Sky News covering the latest spy stories.

The Hiding Season follows her successful Emma Makepeace series, which included The Chase, The Trap, and her critically acclaimed 2023 thriller The Traitor, which was a Grazia Book of the Month, a Washington Post Book of the Year, a Cosmopolitan Book of the Year and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.

Film rights to The Chase and The Traitor series have been acquired.

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