On March 25, 2021, The New York Times included Alma Katsu’s Red Widow on their list of “12 New Books We Recommend This Week.” Red Widow was released on March 23, 2021 and is perfect for thrill seeking readers who want to get into the mind of a veteran CIA spy. The lives of two women agents become intertwined when they have to assess a threat to the Russian Division of the agency. The New York Times acknowledges that Katsu is “a former intelligence analyst best known for her paranormal and horror novels, finally writes what she’s most familiar with: This inside-the-C.I.A. thriller, about the friendship between an agent and the widow of a Russian asset, is replete with falsehoods, betrayals and double-dealing.”