![]() ![]() ![]() After refusing Durgin’s request for help in the new series of murders, she’s dragged into the case when Reitter, now in the Tower of London, claims to know who the new killer is but will only talk to Maggie, who reluctantly agrees to visit him he says he'll give her the killer's name if the king commutes his death sentence to life imprisonment. She works with conscientious objectors, many of whom are Italians in Britain-"Britalians"-whose relatives were interned as enemy aliens. Fed up with the SOE and close to losing control, Maggie’s taken on a dangerous job disarming unexploded ordnance for the bomb disposal unit. And she’s developed a relationship with divorced, job-obsessed DCI James Durgin, who’s faced with a new serial murder case when suitcases filled with bones turn up in the Thames. She’s also found time to help the police apprehend Nicholas Reitter, a serial killer known as the Blackout Beast, who’s been sentenced to death for his crimes. ![]() She’s worked for Winston Churchill, traveled as a spy to Berlin and Paris, and escaped from a Scottish island where someone has been killing exiled Special Operations Executive agents ( The Prisoner in the Castle, 2018, etc.). How far can a multitalented woman be pushed before she breaks?īritish-born, American-raised Maggie Hope has held an amazing series of jobs since moving to war-torn London. ![]()
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