The Hollywood Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery

Maggie Hope is off to California to solve a crime that hits too close to home--and confront the very evil she thought she had left behind in Europe--as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues.\r\n\r\nMacNeal reveals the tarnished underbelly lurking beneath the glamour of the Golden Age of Hollywood.--L.A. Chandlar, author of the Art Deco Mystery series\r\n\r\nLos Angeles, 1943. As the Allies beat back the Nazis in the Mediterranean and the United States military slowly closes in on Tokyo, Walt Disney cranks out wartime propaganda and the Cocoanut Grove is alive with jazz and swing every night. But behind this sunny façade lies a darker reality. Somewhere in the lush foothills of Hollywood, a woman floats lifeless in the pool of one of Californias trendiest hotels.\r\n\r\nWhen American-born secret agent and British spy Maggie Hope learns that this woman was engaged to her former fiancée, John Sterling, and that he suspects her death was no accident, intuition tells her hes right. Leaving London under siege is a lot to ask. But John was once the love of Maggies life . . . and she wont say no.\r\n\r\nMaggie struggles with seeing her lost love again, but whats more shocking is that her own country is as divided and convulsed with hatred as Europe. The Zoot Suit Riots loom large in Los Angeles, and the Ku Klux Klan casts a long shadow everywhere. But there is little time to dwell on memories once she starts digging into the case. As she traces a web of deception from the infamous Garden of Allah to the iconic Carthay Circle Theater, she discovers things arent always the way things appear in the movies--and the political situation in America is more complicated, and dangerous, than the newsreels would have them all believe.