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If you haven’t discovered the Maggie Hope Mystery series yet, you need to! If you are a fan of Jacqueline Winspear or Laurie R. King then you will LOVE Maggie Hope.
This series has gotten a lot of attention since the second book, Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, was a New York Times bestseller and chosen by Oprah.com as “Mystery of the Week” and one of “7 Compulsively Readable Mysteries (for the Crazy-Smart Reader).”
Set in London during the Blitz of WWII, Maggie takes a job for the PM, Winston Churchill, that will change her life. She is a math wiz who is able to crack Nazi codes for the British government which leads to an opportunity of a life time, a potential position with British Intelligence as a spook…follow her journey and adventures where she goes from secretary to a full fledged spy!
I discovered this series last year when I won a copy of the first Maggie Hope Mystery, Mr Churchill’s Secretary. After reading it, I knew it would be a series that I would continue following. Maggie made me want dye my hair flaming read and don red lipstick, I love her character! I was thrilled when the author, Susan Elia MacNeal, agreed to do an interview with me as well. Her latest book, His Majesty’s Hope (Maggie Hope #3) is out curre
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(continued) The conclusion of this fascinating interview with Susan………..
Susan Elia MacNeal is the author of the Maggie Hope mystery series, including her debut novel, “Mr. Churchill’s Secretary” and newly released “Princess Elizabeth’s Spy”. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and child.
Q. Where/when did you first discover your character, Maggie Hope?
SM. I knew I wanted to write about a young woman who becomes a secretary for Winston Churchill. The name Margaret, or Maggie, was a tribute to my writing mentor Judith Merkle Riley and the heroine of her first book, Margaret in A Vision of Light. Margaret was also a popular name for baby girls in the early 20th century, so it worked for someone in her early twenties in 1940. I discovered her last name, Hope, by looking through a list of famous Britons—and there was Bob Hope. It was perfect.
Maggie’s personality is very much inspired by the late Judith Merkle Riley. She was definitely a woman ahead of her time – brilliant and working in economics, a male-dominated field, in the 60s and 70s. She was also a painter, spoke Russian, played the piano and danced the tango. Honestly, I think she worked as a spy at one po
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