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I received an ARC from NetGalley of this mystery in exchange for an honest review; however, I also purchased the book. The Prisoner in the Castle is different from the others as it's written in the vein of Agatha Christie. Maggie Hope isn't on a regular mission -- she's in a castle with other spies who begin to disappear. If Maggie can't figure out whom she can trust and why fellow spies are being eliminated, she may be next. The Prisoner in the Castle is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of thrills and twists. I loved it and highly recommend it!


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The Prisoner in the Castle A Maggie Hope Mystery edition by Susan Elia MacNeal Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

The Prisoner in the Castle is another great installment in the Maggie Hope series. Ms. MacNeal's voice is fresh, and her protagonist is particularly strong for a work of historical mystery.

WHAT I LIKED I love Maggie Hope. She's introspective enough to be interesting, but not self-obssessed. She has a nobility about her. The cast of characters in The Prisoner in the Castle is interesting, and they're distcint enough that I did not confuse them. The ending was unexpected, and Ms. MacNeal did a great job of hiding the antagonist.

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE I'd like to have had a bit more backstory earlier in the book. I understand that it takes time to produce a book, but I'd forgotten the story released prior to this one, so had no idea how Maggie ended up on the Isle of Scarra. The very-late-in-the-book reference to the hypodermic needle didn't help much, and I feel as if I've missed something.

Recommended for fans of historical fiction.
I must admit that I didn't think I would rate this book this high while reading the first third. It was a bit of a slog for me at first. Interesting premise, and surprisingly true as reflected in the historical notes at the end, but pretty tedious to get into. Ah, but then the murders started.

I must admit I bounced back and forth, sure that at last I knew the culprit, and he was actually my first choice. I really enjoyed the book as things heated up. The beginning of the book (with Camilla) was perfect as an segue to the "cooler". Great intro IMO, but there were a lot of pages between that and when I finally got hooked.

Ms. MacNeal is a very talented writer. I had a movie playing in my head while reading this book. Granted, sometimes it bogged down and I did scan some pages here and there -- like the fishing part and the poems and such things -- but she can really paint a scene with words. This one left me wanting more, and I am looking forward to book #9!
The Prisoner in the Castle is the latest in Susan Elia MacNeal’s World War II mystery series featuring Maggie Hope, an American-born mathematician and cryptographer, once a secretary to Winston Churchill, and now a spy working for the top secret organization Special Operations Executive (SOE). Maggie has been imprisoned on an island off the west coast of Scotland because she knows the plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy and she refused to cooperate with a high-ranking SOE officer who was knowingly sending agents to their deaths. She and her fellow inmates, also former agents who know too much, are confined to a prison camp in a creepy castle on the island. They are completely cut off from the outside world, except for one radio that can only be used in emergencies. Their families and friends all believe they’ve been sent abroad on top secret missions.

Then the prisoners start being killed off one by one. Maggie knows the killer must be one of them, unless rumors are true that the castle’s former owner is still alive. He was a cruel and vicious man who supposedly killed his wife and their dinner guests before shooting himself. But Maggie, unlike some of her fellow prisoners, does not believe the rumors. She must discover which of the prisoners is killing the others, before she becomes the next victim. All of them have been trained to kill, but no one seems to have a motive. At first she suspects Camilla, a new prisoner, because the murders began just after she arrived. But when Camilla turns up dead, Maggie realizes she was wrong. Could one of the prisoners be a Nazi spy? Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Durgin, who had worked with Maggie to catch a serial killer in an earlier book in the series, needs Maggie to testify in the man’s trial, or the killer could go free. But he has no idea where she is, and the head of SOE will not tell him. Will Durgin and Maggie’s other friends in London be able to rescue her from the island?

The Prisoner in the Castle is very suspenseful, with many twists and turns. The characters are well developed, and you come to care about each of the prisoners, and feel bad when they are killed off. It is an unusual entry in the series, though, because it is a locked-room mystery, very much in the tradition of Agatha Christie. In fact, there are references to Christie throughout the book. Most of the other books in the series are spy stories. But, as always, when you finish reading, you want to know where Maggie’s next adventure will take her. I highly recommend The Prisoner in the Castle for fans of World War II stories and for fans of Agatha Christie. It is not necessary to begin the series with the first book, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. As a matter of fact, I began it with one of the later volumes and then went back to catch up with the earlier ones. But it helps to read the series in order and follow the character development of Maggie and her friends.
This is a terribly disappointing novel. I have read every one of the Maggie Hope mysteries but this may be my last. The plot doesn't justify the length, and it felt to me like a bad Agatha closed room mystery. The characters were never developed at least in my mind and I read far to many pages waiting for the inevitable unmasking to occur. Maggie is a great character, but his book is too slow to develop an unconvincing in resolution. I wish we were back in the old Winston, Eleanor, Princess Elizabeth days. I think its farewell for me.
I enjoy the Maggie Hope novels because of their well researched history. At first I thought of MacNeal's novels as light reading .However, her stories have become more and more compelling as she has continued Maggie Hope's adventures . This latest adventure is an homage to Agatha Christie's novel And then there were None which is referred to in the story, under its original title. The story is gripping and well written and hard to put down .It brings home the fear and uncertainty of Brittain fighting literally for it's survival. Excellent read.
I received an ARC from NetGalley of this mystery in exchange for an honest review; however, I also purchased the book. The Prisoner in the Castle is different from the others as it's written in the vein of Agatha Christie. Maggie Hope isn't on a regular mission -- she's in a castle with other spies who begin to disappear. If Maggie can't figure out whom she can trust and why fellow spies are being eliminated, she may be next. The Prisoner in the Castle is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of thrills and twists. I loved it and highly recommend it!