The Expats by Chris Pavone, 2012

I typically do not read spy thrillers, but I saw The Expats at the library and figured since I would be traveling to Europe for holiday, why not?

A clever "who's spying on whom" story, The Expats leaves you guessing until the end.

Kate Moore is the protagonist who begins to suspect that her new American friends in Belgium may not be whom they appear to be.

Worse, she begins to suspect that her husband Dexter may be hiding secrets of his own.

More than a spy story, The Expats weaves in the challenges of starting a new life in a foreign country and isolation of not being able to talk to your partner openly.

I was rooting for Kate throughout and anxiously flipping the pages to get to the big reveal of everyone's true identities and intentions.

Apparently, I was not the only one as The Expats was the recipient of the 2013 Edgar Award and Chris Pavone the recipient of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.