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Susan Elia MacNeal

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LAST MISSION TO PARIS is coming out from Minotaur on January 19, 2027.

Susan Elia MacNeal is the author of the New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today-bestselling Maggie Hope mystery series, starting with the Edgar Award-nominated and Barry Award-winning MR. CHURCHILL'S SECRETARY, which is now in its 23rd printing. She is also the author of MOTHER DAUGHTER TRAITOR SPY.

The Maggie Hope novels have been nominated for the Edgar, the Macavity, the ITW Thriller, the Barry, the Dilys, the Sue Federer Historical Fiction, and the Bruce Alexander Historical Fiction awards. The Maggie Hope series is sold worldwide in English, and has also been translated into Czech, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Turkish, Italian, Portuguese, ...more

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THE KING'S JUSTICE is scheduled for publication February 4, 2020. Pre-order now at your favorite independent bookstore, or Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.

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	Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 35,850 ratings — published 2012 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 19,170 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Majesty's Hope (Maggie Hope Mystery, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,096 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (Maggie Hope, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 12,063 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante (Maggie Hope Mystery, #5) 3.87 avg rating — 11,124 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paris Spy (Maggie Hope, #7) 4.04 avg rating — 9,314 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen's Accomplice (Maggie Hope Mystery #6) 3.97 avg rating — 9,275 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prisoner in the Castle (Maggie Hope, #8) 3.97 avg rating — 8,572 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King's Justice (Maggie Hope #9) 4.02 avg rating — 6,619 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Daughter Traitor Spy 3.95 avg rating — 6,530 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aiming.”
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“His one indulgence was attending the occasional Chelsea Blues game”
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The Cabinet of Curiosities/Douglas Preston

22 votes, 8.4%

Creole Belle/James Lee Burke

21 votes, 8.0%

Where the Bodies Are Buried/Christopher Brookmyre

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Rain Fall/Barry Eisler

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Mr. Churchill's Secretary/ Susan Elia MacNeal

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Killer Instinct/Zoë Sharp

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Drop By Drop: A Thriller / Keith Raffel

8 votes, 3.0%

Marker/Robin Cook

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7 votes, 2.7%

Creep/Jennifer Hillier

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Suffer the Children/John Saul

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6 votes, 2.3%

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5 votes, 1.9%

Death of an Old Git/Andrea Frazer

4 votes, 1.5%

The Survival of Thomas Ford/John A.A. Logan

4 votes, 1.5%

Boston Cream / Howard Shrier

3 votes, 1.1%

The Gigolo Murder/Mehmet Murat Somer

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And Then She Was Gone/J. Daniel Sawyer

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The Baptism of Billy Bean/Roger Alan Skipper

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