The German Wife

A Novel

By: Kelly Rimmer

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Ann Marie Gideon

From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

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"The author’s research has captured the tension that those who lived through that time experienced at deep levels. Kelly Rimmer’s scenes in both eras are fraught with anxiety, urging the reader to keep turning the page, anxious to learn about each character’s experiences, right up to the very end." — New York Journal of Books

For fans of fast-paced historical thrillers like Our Woman in Moscow and The Rose Code, Kelly Rimmer’s dramatic new novel follows two female SOE operatives whose lives will be determined by a double agent in their midst.

Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory—in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war.

Moved by her father’s frustration, Noah’s daughter Charlotte begins a search for answers that resurrects the stories of Chloe and Fleur, the code names for two otherwise ordinary women whose lives intersect in 1943 when they’re called up by the SOE for deployment in France. Taking enormous risks to support the allied troops with very little information or resources, the women have no idea they’re at the mercy of a double agent among them who's causing chaos within the French circuits, whose efforts will affect the outcome of their lives…and the war.

But as Charlotte’s search for answers bears fruit, overlooked clues come to light about the identity of the double agent—with unsettling hints pointing close to home—and more shocking events are unearthed from the dangerous, dramatic last days of the war that lead to Chloe and Fleur’s eventual fates.

For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for

• The Things We Cannot Say
• Before I Let You Go
• Truths I Never Told You
• The Warsaw Orphan
• The Paris Agent
• The Story Keeper

Thought provoking story

Learned so much about this controversial event in history. The novel really makes you think what you would do if placed in a difficult situation where you have to chose between following orders to save yourself or standing up for your convictions.

Excellent book!!

The combination of this author with her incredible incite in to this time in history, and the amazing performances by both artists makes for a very thought provoking read. It is well worth the time but you may need some Kleenex. Their struggle is heart wrenching and all too real. It demonstrates the fact that there are often two sides to every struggle.

All the Emotions Here

Excellent historical background. Two stories. Two women, one American, one German, each with their own trauma, heartbreak and resilience. From the despair of the Dustbowl inTexas to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany to postwar Alabama, there is drama and suspense, and for myself, fear, pity, tears and relief.

Well told emotional story

Great story with relevance to what is going on in our world today. I really enjoyed the different perspectives of the characters. Well done.

To see both sides of an issue of women that were most affected by the actions of an out of control government.

The story puts you right into the thoughts and actions that affect this scientist’s wife. I felt like I was walking side-by-side with her as she went through the persecution of being a woman who sees the danger of not being one who goes along with the narrative.
I listened to it on audible and because of the way the chapters are separated, I had to keep going back and reviewing where the characters were in the story .