Missing documents about climate change that set off a series of murders in a futuristic Washington set a dozen years from now. A group of high-society sisters whose conflicting loyalties roil the political waters in wartime London and Berlin. Clashing cousins whose colliding loyalties are set against occupation-period politics in Brussels. Political intrigue is always in season in Ottawa and Washington, and in London and Moscow as well. But the early months of 2023 are a particularly rich period for novels marked by steely political calculation, by betrayal and by intrigue carrying life-or-death implications. The Mitford Affair, by Marie Benedict.Handout...