She has fought, scrambled, connived, and sleuthed her way through more than enough adventures in hopes of thwarting the Nazis that it most certainly is her war – she owns it as thoroughly as any character in an ongoing mystery series. Churchill’s Secretary, American-born Maggie Hope has been on half a dozen adventures with a cast of endearing supporting characters (including a good many well-drawn historical figures). (Aug.“This is not my war” Susan Elia MacNeal’s redoubtable heroine Maggie Hope says at one point in the new series novel, The Paris Spy, and although the moment is deadly serious – she’s verbally sparring with a silky, venomous Obersturmbannführer in occupied Paris at the height of the Second World War, and if she slips up and breaks her cover (she’s in Paris to spy, of course, for the Special Operations Executive), she knows she’ll suffer the same fate as the Erica Calvert, the SOE agent whose recent disappearance in Paris has urgent relevance to the Allies’ advancing plans for the D-Day landing in Normandy – and yet the line will likely prompt a quick smile or laugh from long-time readers of MacNeal’s series. Agent: Victoria Skurnick, Levine Greenberg Literary. A fast-paced climax leads to an ending that will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next installment. 8, 2017 A British spy walks the fine line between brave and foolhardy in Nazi-occupied Paris. Those unfamiliar with previous novels might be confused by Maggie’s family background and Elise’s choices, but series fans should appreciate the development in their relationship. THE PARIS SPY by Susan Elia MacNeal RELEASE DATE: Aug. These scenes raise complex moral questions and showcase subtle acts of resistance. THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE by Susan Elia MacNeal BOOK REVIEW THE PARIS SPY by Susan Elia MacNeal bookshelf Forget about solving all these crimes the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. MacNeal won the Barry Award and an AudioFile Earphones award and. A chance encounter with designer Coco Chanel brings an entrée to an elegant world of ballet and masked balls in which Parisian aristocrats mingle with German officers. Susan Elia MacNeal is the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope mysteries and Mother Daughter Traitor Spy.

The Paris Spy is the first Maggie Hope Mystery I’ve read, and when friends found. Unbeknownst to Maggie, one of her colleagues is a double agent. The Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal is the seventh Maggie Hope Mystery, where American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II. There Maggie searches for her German half-sister, Elise Hess, a Resistance fighter, and for fellow agent Erica Calvert, whose coded transmissions have raised concern-and whose mission is vital to the success of the Allies’ planned Normandy invasion.

Set in 1942, MacNeal’s engrossing seventh Maggie Hope mystery (after 2016’s The Queen’s Accomplice) takes the American-raised British spy, disguised as a fashionable Irish lady, to Nazi-occupied Paris.