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Susan Elia MacNeal

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Susan Elia MacNeal graduated cum laude from Wellesley College, with departmental honors in English literature and credits from cross-registered classes at MIT. She attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University. She is the author of the Maggie Hope Mystery series. Her writing has toon meer been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Fodor's, Time Out New York, Time Out London, Publishers Weekly, Dance Magazine, and various publications of New York City Ballet. She's also the author of two non-fiction books and a professional editor. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Susan Elia MacNeal

Mr. Churchill's Secretary (2012) 1,505 exemplaren
Princess Elizabeth's Spy (2012) 794 exemplaren
His Majesty's Hope (2013) — Auteur — 591 exemplaren
Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante (2015) 447 exemplaren
The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (2014) 443 exemplaren
The Queen's Accomplice (2016) 401 exemplaren
The Paris Spy (2017) 370 exemplaren
The Prisoner in the Castle (2018) — Auteur — 364 exemplaren
The King's Justice (2020) 220 exemplaren
The Hollywood Spy (2021) 164 exemplaren
Mother Daughter Traitor Spy (2022) 136 exemplaren
The Maggie Hope Series 1-5 (2016) 3 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
20th Century
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA (birth)
Geboorteplaats
Buffalo, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Brooklyn, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Opleiding
Wellesley College (BA|English), Radcliffe Publishing Course
Beroepen
novelist
editor
journalist
Relaties
MacNeal, Noel
Agent
Victoria Skurnick (Levine Greenberg)
Korte biografie
Susan Elia MacNeal's debut novel, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, will be published by Bantam Dell/Random House on April 3, 2012—Winston Churchill Day. The sequel, Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, will be published in the fall of 2012. She is currently under contract for, and hard at work on, books #3 and #4 in the Maggie Hope series. 
Susan is married and lives with her husband, Noel MacNeal, and young son in Brooklyn. 
She thinks it's extremely odd to write in the third person.

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I might have enjoyed this more had I not read a non-fiction book by one of Britain's top codebreakers earlier this year ( silk and cyanide.) It reminded me of the 60's/70's batman series I so enjoyed-with villains spending too much time talking and too many cliffhangers-but it was alright
 
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cspiwak | 137 andere besprekingen | Mar 6, 2024 |
book 3-KIRKUS REVIEWA dangerous trip to Berlin becomes a life-altering experience for a British spy.Maggie Hope is a Brit raised by an aunt in America who returned to London, where she learned many things about the supposedly dead parents she barely knew. Her father is a scientist working to break German codes, her mother a Nazi agent whom Maggie outwitted in her last adventure (Princess Elizabeth?s Spy, 2012). Now she has undergone rigorous training to be sent to Germany, where her quick wits and excellent German just may let her pull off a dangerous mission. She is parachuted into Germany, where she is posing as the girlfriend of Gottlieb Lerner, a Nazi who is really a devout Catholic involved with local priests working to thwart Nazi plans. Her job: deliver radio crystals and plant a microphone in the home office of her mother, Clara Hess. Maggie meets her half sister Elise, a nurse who has recently discovered that the government is busily carrying out their secret plan of race purification by killing children and others whom they consider defective in any way. Elise is boldly hiding a British pilot and the Jewish husband of a fellow nurse in her mother?s attic while working to find proof of the mass killings. When Maggie gets a chance to work for a Nazi involved in the program, a horrified Lerner tries to get her to return to Britain, but Maggie is determined to get proof that the program exists.Maggie continues her winning ways with more thrills and romantic problems, but this time, the horrors of her experiences add depth to the already pleasing adventures.… (meer)
 
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bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Book 2 about Maggie Hope-MI5 spy.KIRKUS REVIEWA mathematician born in Britain and raised in America adds spying to her resume.Maggie Hope has left her job as a secretary to Winston Churchill to enter MI5?s school for spies. Although her grades are stellar, she doesn?t do well enough on the physical tests to be sent to France. Instead, MI5 finds a job for her as maths tutor to the Princess Elizabeth so that she can keep an eye on Elizabeth, fondly known as Lilibet, who, as heir to the throne, may be a Nazi target. Maggie arrives at Windsor Castle with a lot on her mind. Her boyfriend has been shot down over Germany, and the father she had long thought dead is working at Bletchley Park¥and may be a German spy. Maggie soon becomes a favorite of Lilibet and her younger sister, Margaret, if not their beloved Corgis, and bonds with the large and varied castle staff, both upstairs and downstairs, despite their understandable fears following the recent murder of a friend of the Queen?s ladies-in-waiting. As she pokes around, Maggie begins to suspect one of the snobbish ladies of Nazi leanings. Taken under the wing of Lord Gregory Strathcliffe, a badly disfigured RAF pilot, Maggie soon discovers several disquieting things after someone else is killed on the castle grounds. It?s good that Maggie is willing to risk her life to protect Lilibet, but will things indeed come to such a pass?Maggie?s second adventure (Mr. Churchill?s Secretary, 2012) is a romantic thriller detailing the life of the royals during the perilous times of World War II.… (meer)
 
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bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Book 1-Kirkus Review: Maggie Hope was born in England, but after her parents were killed in a car accident, her aunt, a college professor, took her along when she accepted a position in Boston. Unable now to sell her grandmother?s house, Maggie is forced to take in roommates to keep things going. Her degree in math from a prestigious college apparently means nothing when she applies for jobs that would use her considerable skills to aid Britain, now in the throes of World War II. Her friend David Greene, one of Winston Churchill?s private secretaries, prevails on Maggie to take on a secretarial post at 10 Downing Street, where her predecessor was murdered. She does her best with her job and enjoys a busy social life with her friends and roommates: Chuck, an Irish girl training to be a nurse; Paige, a Virginia debutante Maggie met in college; Annabelle and Clarabelle, ?the Dumb-Belles?; and, most recently, Sarah, a ballerina. While the Luftwaffe is raining bombs on London, the IRA is doing its best to help Germany with sabotage and espionage. Maggie and her friends are caught up in the situation when it appears one of them may be aiding the IRA. In the midst of this intrigue, Maggie is shocked to learn that her father is still alive. Though she has little time to spare from her job, she?s determined to track him down.Brave, clever Maggie?s debut is an enjoyable mix of mystery, thriller and romance that captures the harrowing experiences of life in war-torn London.… (meer)
 
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bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |

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