This results in a lot of name-dropping and factoids scattered throughout the book. MacNeal has done extensive research, and cites her sources in a “Historical Notes” section at the end. Also mixed into the plot are the upcoming execution of a young black man (whose trial stinks on ice) and the British intelligence service trying to find out about Germany’s rocket program. This volume is not much of a mystery from the reader’s point of view we are privy to scenes Maggie is not, so it is really more of a thriller. This is the fifth Maggie Hope mystery novel I have not read the previous ones. Roosevelt, but the note itself is missing. There appears to have been a suicide note implicating Mrs. As it happens, that young woman’s health is impaired by the fact that she’s dead, an apparent suicide. When Eleanor Roosevelt expresses worry about one of her employees who hasn’t shown up for work, Maggie volunteers to go with her to check on Blanche Balfour’s health. Churchill is secret agent Maggie Hope, posing as a humble typist. The United States’ alliance with Great Britain is now an active one, and to cement that alliance, Prime Minister Winston Churchill has crossed the ocean to confer with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Īccompanying Mr. The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, and America is now at war with the Axis powers. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal
What Maggie uncovers is a shocking conspiracy that could jeopardize American support for the war and leave the fate of the world hanging dangerously in the balance.Book Review: Mrs. Maggie knows she must keep the investigation quiet, so she employs her unparalleled skills at code breaking and espionage to figure out who would target Mrs.
Roosevelt's inner circle - as ER herself is implicated in the crime. When one of the First Lady's aides is mysteriously murdered, Maggie is quickly drawn into Mrs. Posing as his typist, she is accompanying the prime minister as he meets with President Roosevelt to negotiate the United States' entry into World War II. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C., along with special agent Maggie Hope. In this riveting mystery from Susan Elia MacNeal, England's most daring spy, Maggie Hope, travels across the pond to America, where a looming scandal poses a grave threat to the White House and the Allied cause.ĭecember 1941.
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