Almost Home, Pam Jenoff
Almost Home, Pam Jenoff
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Almost Home

Author: Pam Jenoff

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Unabridged: 12 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/20/2022

Synopsis

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Diplomat’s Wife

A thrilling novel of suspense about a woman who must face a past she’d rather forget in order to uncover a dangerous legacy that threatens her future.

Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s idyllic experience as a graduate student at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend Jared drowned in the River Cam. She swore she’d never go back—until a terminally ill friend asks her to return. Jordan attempts to settle into her new life, taking on an urgent mission beside rakish agent Sebastian Hodges. Just when she thinks there’s hope for a fresh start, a former college classmate tells her that Jared’s death was not an accident—he was murdered.

Jordan quickly learns that Jared’s research into World War II had uncovered a shameful secret, but powerful forces with everything to lose will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. Soon, Jordan finds herself in grave peril as she struggles to find the answers that lie treacherously close to home, the truth that threatens to change her life forever, and the love that makes it all worth fighting for. Fast-paced and impossible to put down, Almost Home establishes Pam Jenoff as one of the best new writers in the genre.

About Pam Jenoff

If there were a story about empowered women, Pam Jenoff would certainly be a great example. She was born in Maryland and grew up outside of Philadelphia. She went to Cherokee High School, George Washington University, Cambridge University, and University of Pennsylvania. Her university work garnered her a Master's Degree in history and a Juris Doctorate Degree in Law. After receiving her master's, she accepted an appointment as Special Assistant to the Army, where she observed and participated in special operations at the highest levels of government. Some of those included......helping secure a memorial for Pan Am 103 victims at Arlington Cemetery, observing recovery efforts at the Oklahoma City bombing, and attending the ceremonies to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of WW II at European sites. Pam then moved to the State Department, after which she was assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. She developed close relations with the surviving Jewish community.

In 1996, she went to law school, and now teaches at Rutgers University. She is also the author of The Kommandant's Girl, The Winter Guest, The Diplomat's Wife, The Ambassador's Daughter, Almost Home, A Hidden Affair, The Things We Cherished, and her most recent work, The Other Girl. Pam is a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey with her husband and three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on September 21, 2023

I read this awhile ago, and thought I had already posted it on Goodreads. Since I hadn't, I am now, doing so. This was a donation to our Little Free Library Shed. It’s plot outlined on the back of the cover intrigued me so I thought I would read it before releasing it back to the Shed. I read this bo......more

Goodreads review by Dale on January 07, 2015

Three and a half stars. Pam Jenoff was a new author for me. Jordan always swore she would never return to London and especially to Cambridge where she went to university. Ten years earlier her boyfriend Jared had drowned. Since then Jordan worked in various places of the world as an intelligence off......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on January 14, 2024

I started this audiobook last night and made it Several chapters in but I can’t finish it. The main character is unbearable. I wanted intrigue. Not teenage angst. I want to know what happens but not badly enough to endure this whining. 2 stars because the setting of this book is what I like in suspe......more

Goodreads review by Janet on December 24, 2021

Rated 4.2 I got this book from the library to give me a break from historical fiction. Imagine my surprise when I learned much about WWII and the Albanians involvement in the theft of Nazi super funds that had been hidden after the war. Life at Cambridge on the rowing team was detailed and educationa......more

Goodreads review by Meg on March 11, 2010

Atmospheric, cerebral and exciting, Pam Jenoff’s rollicking Almost Home kept me on the edge of my seat from page one. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a novel filled with so many elements — romance, murder, grief, passion, suspense, family — but Jenoff’s masterful use of description and langu......more

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