Frost the Fiddler

Leslie Frost #1

by Janice Weber

Pursuing a double life as a United States Secret Agent and successful concert violinist, Leslie Frost, code name Smith, tracks down a venomous nest of East German spies and becomes involved with a dangerously seductive assassin. Reprint.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

390 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Janice Weber's novels, most of which have something to do with music, have a worldwide following. Her debut novel, The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway, enjoys near cult status and is widely recognized as iconic Chick Lit - though appearing years before the genre was invented. Its colorful characters, verbal virtuosity, wit, and sensuality established the hallmarks of a style that has earned Weber comparison with Mark Twain, Fran Liebowitz, Harold Pinter, and Robert Ludlum.

Reviews

[CynnieRose · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have purchased this title three times. I have a note on my newest copy not to donate or lend it. I watched all of the James Bond movies with my dad and later read them. So happy to read of a glamorous woman spy who embodies all of Bond's good qualities, including using sex casually. This book blew my mind in 1994. This time, I enjoyed the techie information of the nineties.

[Sheila · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leslie Frost has Jason Bourne's fatalism, James Bond's gadgets, and Sydney Bristow's issues with romance. She's also a virtuoso violinist, which is a great cover for a spy, except when it's not.

Frost the Fiddler is definitely dated, full of just-post-Cold War politics and Germany on the brink of reunification, but the character of Frost holds up remarkably well. I was so engrossed in this book that I got off at the wrong bus/train stop three separate times today.