The third installment, The Prime Minister's Secret, is due out in 2014. Churchill's Secetary, the first in the Maggie Hope mystery series, was published in 2012, followed by Princess Elizabeth's Spy in 2013. Eventually, she became an associate editor at Dance Magazine. Susan interned at Random House, then moved to Penguin publishers and, later, to McGraw-Hill. She also attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard. She was raised in Buffalo, NY, and attended Wellesley College, where she cross-registered for classes at MIT. Susan Elia MacNeal is an American writer best known for her Maggie Hope mystery series.
In this daring debut, Susan Elia MacNeal blends meticulous research on the era, psychological insight into Winston Churchill, and the creation of a riveting main character, Maggie Hope, into a spectacularly crafted novel. ( From the publisher.) And when she unravels a mystery that points toward her own family’s hidden secrets, she’ll discover that her quick wits are all that stand between an assassin’s murderous plan and Churchill himself. In troubled, deadly times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, access to the War Rooms also exposes Maggie to the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history.Įnsnared in a web of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie must work quickly to balance her duty to King and Country with her chances for survival. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined-and opportunities she will not let pass. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day.
Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge-and the greatness that rose to meet it. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Series, #1)
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