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Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal. A Maggie Hope Mystery.
Review summary: This historical mystery is a fascinating look at behind-the-scenes London during the early years of World War II. The story itself is extraordinary but it is Maggie Hope herself that is the star of this show, a smart, strong-willed woman determined to help her country in whatever way she can. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Princess Elizabeth's Spy
Susan Elia MacNeal
A Maggie Hope Mystery
Bantam (October 2012)
Publisher synopsis: As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous — and deadly — than Maggie ever expected.
The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.
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