Mrs. Roosevelt's Confidante

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Maggie Hope, travels across the pond to America, where a looming scandal poses a grave threat to the White House and the Allied cause. December 1941. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C., along with special agent Maggie Hope. Posing as his typist, she is accompanying the prime minister as he meets with President Roosevelt to negotiate the United States' entry into World War II. When one of the First Lady's aides is mysteriously murdered, Maggie is quickly drawn into Mrs. Roosevelt's inner circle--as ER herself is implicated in the crime. Maggie knows she must keep the investigation quiet, so she employs her unparalleled skills at code breaking and espionage to figure out who would target Mrs. Roosevelt, and why. What Maggie uncovers is a shocking conspiracy that could jeopardize American support for the war and leave the fate of the world hanging dangerously in the balance.

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Fiction makes history more real submitted by sara on August 15, 2016, 8:02pm I enjoyed this mystery/historical fiction. Fiction makes history more real, and I hope the things I learned in the book are actually true.

somewhat mediocre submitted by camelsamba on July 12, 2017, 9:58pm This is the 5th book in a series, but the first I read. I got it because it was "available now" as audiobook in overdrive, plus a long time ago I read a mystery series by Elliot (?) Roosevelt where Eleanor acts as the detective. I was hoping Eleanor would play a similar role as in his series. She didn't (although she did 'enable' Maggie at a couple of turns).

The plot was just so-so. Elements of it were just simply far-fetched, such as when Maggie accused the police detective of having an affair so he handed over a file, and the whole business in the prison basement with Blanche's fiance (whose name I can't remember and cannot find since i listened to it via overdrive).

Not having read previous books I was missing certain aspects of the back story (e.g. Maggie Hope's training as a spy, her relationship to others on Churchill's staff, etc) but it did not detract from understanding the story. A synopsis elsewhere says "Maggie ... employs her unparalleled skills at code breaking and espionage to figure out who would target Mrs. Roosevelt, and why." Actually: no. Her unparalleled (?) skills at code breaking only get used after the denouement. She doesn't even use much in the way of spy skills along the way. I do not feel a need to read any more in the series.