Many thanks to NetGalley, Random House Ballantine Bantam for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest in this amazing series by Ava Glass. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 5 stars!

British spy Emma Makepeace is back! She's now headed to Scotland for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a possible assassination by the Russians - they just don't know who the target is. She has one week to figure it all out. She must get close to Nick, a wealthy Russian with a British passport who The Agency believes has valuable information about the target. She must also work with a local police officer, Kate Mackenzie, to help her navigate through Edinburgh.

This is one of my favorite series, full of action and adventure. Emma is tough, smart, determined, and a complete bad ass! This book shines a little more light into Emma's vulnerabilities as she tackles her past as well as how far she can ethically go in her pursuit of knowledge. Plus, there's a leak of confidential information leading Emma and her team to wonder who they can trust. Definitely works as a stand alone, but start with the beginning for full enjoyment of this amazing series! Can't wait for more!

The G7 Summit is rapidly approaching but something nefarious may be percolating. Exactly what—that’s not known. All MI-6 knows is that have scant few days to figure out the plot, prevent it from happening, and ensure a smooth Summit.

Enter Emma Makepeace—who is in running with James Bond as my favorite spy.

I am a huge fan of @avaglassbooks Emma Makepeace series and this one is a phenomenal third installment. Emma is growing as a character across the series and here—her skills are literally in a race against time. If you want to read a slick spy thriller, pick this series up!

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Ava Glass’ The Trap was a fast, enjoyable read! I don’t tend to lean towards spy mysteries, but this was such a fun read.

Emma is a likable main character with a lot of depth and it’s hard not to root for her. This book genuinely hooked me from the first chapter and never let go. Within the book, there were items, such as memos and newspaper clippings. I love a mixed media book. I think it brings so much to a story and this was no exception.

Ava Glass’ writing style is perfect for this story - the tension was palpable and I was kept on the edge of my seat.

Thank you to Random House for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

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I've read all 3 of the Alias Emma novels, and they are FUN! Fast-paced and expertly plotted, you just keep reading to see what's going to happen next. This latest installment takes Emma to Edinburgh for the G7. Emma has to use herself as bait, makes a friend, and sees someone from her past. I'm not going to say much else. Just read this series!

"She has just one week to stop a killer.

Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning—but they have no idea who the target is.

Surrounded by the world’s most powerful political leaders in a gridlocked city, Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait.

With time running short, Emma faces the most perilous mission of her career. How far will she go to catch the killer?"

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Ballantine for the free ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed herein are my own.

The Trap is another fast paced spy thriller in the Alias Emma series. It grabbed my attention in the first chapter and was an action packed ride through Edinburgh. I am a big fan of Emma Makepeace and loved her most recent case, as well as her character growth over the three books in this series. I’m already looking forward to her next adventure!

Thank you @bantambooksuk for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my honest review. This same review was shared on the Barnes & Noble website.

The Trap is book 3 in the Alias Emma series by Ava Glass.
This story is an intricate, fast-paced, pulse-pounding British spy novel that will keep the reader rapidly turning the pages.
Glass crafts a masterful narrative that is a cinematic gem that deftly captures the readers imagination.

Thank You NetGalley and Random House, Ballantine & Bantam for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

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The Trap (Alias Emma, Book 3) by Ava Glass
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My favorite spy is back! This time, Emma is in Scotland working undercover trying to stop a terrorist attack on a G7 conference. Like the previous two books in this series, this one is thrillingly fast-paced with lots of action. You can easily read this one as a standalone but the series is so good, I suggestion reading the other two first.

Thank you @NetGalley, @RandomHouse, and @AvaGlassBooks for my gifted copies. I can’t wait for the next one!

Thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine | Bantam and NetGalley for the ARC! This thriller was incredibly fun, fast-paced and oh-so addicting! Now that I have read this one, I cannot wait to go back and read the rest in this series. I love a female James Bond and this makes this book so much better!

This was a great story. I sped through it, wanting to see what happened next. Due to the title, I expected more of a trap to be involved somehow, so it kept me spinning my wheels as I tried to figure it out. I enjoyed Emma and how the story played out.

While I liked the story, I felt the writing was lacking somehow. I feel like it could have been tightened up a little bit to make it more enjoyable to me. Despite that, though, I thought this was a good read.

I won’t post this next part publicly, but I have to say, I have never read such a poorly edited advanced copy. I found all the errors—from misplaced, incorrect, missing, or extra punctuation, to missing, extra, or misspelled words—to be highly distracting, and it took a lot at multiple points to get me to continue reading the book. I understand this is an uncorrected proof, and I would expect some errors, but this felt as if it hadn’t been edited at all.


I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you to Bantam and Netgalley for this advanced reader's copy of The Trap by Ava Glass. This is the third novel in the Alias Emma spy series, but for me it was my first one. A fantastic book, engaging, fast paced, and truly enjoyable. The book was so addictive I have begun reading backwards in the series! Emma's character is well developed, The story deals with a Russian threat to a G7 meeting being held in Edinburgh, and the "agency" Emma is an agent with has been tasked to determine and stop the threat. The story moves quickly, and you will turn the pages just as quickly! Enough for the review, I need to get back to the earlier book The Traitor!

Emma Makepeace is one of my favorite heroines. These books just keep getting better. In this story she has one week to find a would be assassin. There are two problems. One is they have no idea who they are looking for. They know what country is behind it, but no names. The second problem is even more bizarre in that they have no idea who the victim will be. There is one thing that they are quite sure of and that is there will be an assassination attempt, and it is their job to prevent it, even while flying under the radar.

It will take the brains and guts of Emma to make this right. Emma is highly intelligent and observant. She is laser-focused with fire in her eyes. She reminds me a tiger roaming in the jungle acutely aware of everything going on around her. You better be prepared to fight her not only physically, but mentally as well.

This author knows how to set the scene while jetting from the reader from place to place. I was so absorbed into this book that I often forget where I was at. It will keep you glued to the pages. Score another winner in this hot series.

Thank you to Random House Ballantine for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

The Trap by Ava Glass is the third book in the Alias Emma series about Emma Makepeace. Emma is an agent for a secret intelligence agency in England. In this installment she is helping to discover details of a Russian plot to wreak havoc at a summit of various political leaders.

Similar to the other Alias Emma books, this one was fast paced and with several twists throughout. As a fan of mysteries this is right up my alley. Definitely will read future books by Ava Glass and recommend to other fans of spy books!

I love the Emma Makepeace books! The first one was non-stop action. Barely room to breathe. The second was a little less exciting than the first, but still a solid entry into a series. But The Trap brought back everything I loved about the first book. Emma once again has very little time to find the truth. She is faced with an assignment she has never been asked before in order to uncover the plot to attack the G7 summit. She has to decide what she is willing to do. New characters were welcome here. A spy never knows who to trust so every new person is a puzzle. Reading about Emma is like watching Alias. Excitement in the action packed scenes but humanity in the main characters.

Ava Glass writes one of the best spy thriller series in the genre today. Her third book is the best one yet. I could not put this book down and I raced to the conclusion. As you read this book, it feels like you are in the middle of the action. I am just upset I have to wait so long to read the next one. Start with Alias Emma if you have not read the previous two books. I always recommend starting the series at the beginning!

Buckle up your seat belts and hang on for a fast paced thriller with a strong female character. Ava Glass once again brings her "A game" to The Trap, the third "mission" that Emma Makepeace, not her real name, undertakes.

Emma is sent by the Agency, a super secret intelligence organization in Britain, to the G7 summit in Edinburgh. Intel received is that an assassination will be carried out by the Russians on a high value target. Emma's assignment is to set up a honey trap for Russian oligarch Nick Orlov, find out who the target is and how the assassination will be carried out . Emma will not be working solo for this mission, local cop, Kate Mackenzie, will be giving assistance. The duo work together after a bit of a rocky start to stop the Russians.

Emma is capable, tenacious, stubborn, smart and fallible. She has an interesting backstory that plays into her character. The Trap can be read as a stand-alone, but to really know Emma read the previous books in the series, you will not be disappointed.

I find this series to be one of the best spy thrillers out today. I can hardly wait to go on Emma's next mission!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, for an ARC. The review is my own.

My thanks to NetGalley and Bantam Books for the ARC of “The Trap” in exchange for an honest review.
Overjoyed to get my hands on Ava Glass’s third thrill ride adventure about another dangerous mission for the young, fearless British spy, Emma Makepeace.
Emma, working for a “sort of” offshoot of British Intelligence MI6, once again faces off against her lifelong hated enemies of the Russian secret service. (Her father died at their hands when she was a child.) And once again, they’re up to no good -planning some kind of catastrophic, violent disruption of the U.S.-European G7 economic summit due to happen at a Scottish castle in Edinburgh.
Our girl Emma’s tasked with surveilling and then befriending (in…uh.. possibly more ways than one) Nick Orlov, a former Russian citizen turned millionaire oil dealer based in Edinburgh. He’s a dashing, handsome notorious ladies man, but now he’s being pressured by brutal Russian agents to help them in whatever terroristic event they’ve cooked up for the G7.
From there, it’s one swift, suspenseful moment after another as Emma throws herself into harm’s way to get to the bottom of things, foil the Russians, and save the free world while bravely serving on His Majesty’s Secret Service. Along the way she ends up with an unlikely but invaluable partner in suffer-no-fools Scottish cop Kate Mackenzie and a stunning personal surprise for herself.
For all lovers of action-adventure spy fiction, this series is a 5 star must. And since the James Bond producers move at the rate of dead snails to make another one, here’s the very next best thing till they get around to it.

I love Emma. Another great installment. Mackenzie as her "partner" was a great addition. We get a brief scene with someone from Emma's past. Her new target Nick would make a good future love interest. Here's hoping we get another book.

Another wild ride for Emma. Another great story to add to this series. This time she is in Scotland and has to uncover a plot to assassinate members of the G7. When Emma has to get close to someone who may be involved in the assassination attempt, she isn't sure just how far she is willing to go. If she doesn't get the information, many people could die. When the man takes her to Rome for dinner, they walk into a trap, and it is up to Emma to get them out of it. She also has to work with a partner, and she isn't sure that she is willing to do that. But the partner proves to be quite the asset. Can they stop the assassin in time? Will Emma live through this one?

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book.

This has turned out to be a very entertaining series and I am glad I got into it from the beginning. Thank you to NetGalley for introducing me to Emma Makepeace and continuing to feed my hunger for more.

Emma and her team, from an unnamed agency that most "spys" don't even know it exists, are on their way to Edinburgh, Scotland for a meeting of the G7 nation's representatives. While on the way, they receive word that a well-known Russian is also on the way to Edinburgh. Why? Has this to do with the G7 conference? What is Vladimir Balakin doing in Scotland? That is what Emma's superiors want to know, and they want to know it NOW.

When Balakin leaves the airport, he is driven to the house of a Russian who has lived in Scotland for years, and is not even on the Agency's radar. Emma's primary objective is to find out how this man, Nikolai Orlov, is involved with Balakin. Orlov emigrated to Britain fifteen years previously and has made a fortune, beginning in Russia and continuing in Scotland. As far as anyone knows, he has no ties to Russia and has not been back there since leaving. So why is Balakin staying at his house?

With the help of an Edinburgh policewoman, Emma follows every possible lead and she finds Kate Mackenzie to be both professional and knowledgeable about the local crime scene. They work well together and together are able to get to the bottom of what, exactly, is going on.

thank you PRH and PRH audio for this new installment in Ava Glass's spy series; I appreciated the early review copies of the first two books in the series and recent chance from PRH audio to listen again to the first two books. Thank you for the free copies.

I really like this series, there is something fun and freeing in a female focused spy novel, diving into exploits from a smart and quick witted woman who lives in shadows and navigates the world on her own and in her own way. I enjoy how Emma is always a little ahead of the enemy, prepared to see what is coming and be a step ahead.