Maggie Hope Mystery (5 books in series)
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review 1: I would rate this book as at least a 3.5. I enjoy these Maggie Hope mysteries, set in WW2 in Britain and in Europe, both for her development from a planned graduate student in math, to her challenges as a typist for Winston Churchill to becoming a spy, as well as the historical r...
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review 1: Sadly, I just couldn't waste anymore precious reading time on this book. I wanted to like it, I did enjoy the first book (with some minor annoyances about anachronistic behavior) but this one magnifies everything that bothered me. I just can't keep reading a series whose main c...
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review 1: I liked the settings & discriptions of how people lived with war time restrictions. I took a long time for anything to happen but when it did the situtations were quickly resolved. Maggie is about to be tortured & shipped to Germany, suddenly the MI guys show up. A bomb is go...
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review 1: Spies are not all cocktails and intrigue. Soldiers are not all righteous defense and warranted aggression. Susan Elia MacNeal’s newest World War II novel is not just another World War II novel. I took my time processing this book. It’s a quick page-turner, yes, but it hit me ...
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review 1: Maggie Hope has finally achieved her wish to be trained as a field agent and dropped behind enemy lines in World War II Berlin. Her mission to contact the German resistance and deliver radio parts and enlist their help in placing a bug in the home of a high ranking Nazi. There ...