Treacherous is the Night by Anna Lee Huber

 In this second book in the Verity Kent series, Verity attends a seance with a friend but during the experience the medium reveals information about Verity's classified activities during the war.  She also mentions one of Verity's Belgian contacts whose code name was Emily. Verity knows the medium is a fake and feels that the experience suggests her friend is in danger.  After trying in vain to get those still in national intelligence to help her, Verity wants to go to Belgium to find and warn her old friend herself, but she knows that returning to the front lines would be very difficult for her war traumatized husband, Sidney.  Their relationship is still fragile.  Should she risk her relationship with her long lost husband to solve the mystery surrounding her wartime friend?  

I liked the first book in this series, and I liked this as well.  Verity's relationships with Sydney, Max, and her own past remain complicated, but the chemistry between herself and her husband is undeniable. The mystery is a little improbable.  Do people really ever leave complicated clues for other people to find? Still, I like the fact that Huber doesn't glamourize war and gives a sincere nod to the fact that even in WWI men came back with PTSD. The main problem with this book and this series is the audio reader.  She has a really unnatural cadence to her voice. I found myself replaying key sentences in my mind with a proper inflection to make them make more sense. I don't know if I will listen to the next in the series. (336 p, 2018)