Secrets, Justice, and a Double Agent | Spy Girls by Joanna Vander Vlugt | EP13

Spy Girls is a gripping spy thriller with assassins, pursuit and resilience. A CIA action officer is released from prison. A Chief Justice is murdered, and the Law Society is scrutinizing Jade Thyme’s conduct. Jade’s life can’t get much worse until she is coerced into finding an elusive double agent. Tangled in lies and political agendas, high speed chases and sticky bombs, can Jade outplay a dangerous Russian assassin before her own life is terminated?

In this episode of The Thriller Pitch Podcast, Joanna Vander Vlugt and I talk about how real cases in British Columbia and news events inspired Spy Girls, why she set the story in Canada, and how her background in the prosecutor’s office helped her get the details right. She explains using both first- and third-person narration, the challenges of writing dark scenes, and how an unexpected exchange with a former CIA operative shaped parts of her book.

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