The Queen's Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal

Roosevelt's Confidant the character John Sterling is based on the author Roald Dahl. The Prisoner in the Castle was published on August 7, 2018.Īll her books include historical figures in her plots, for example, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth II, etc. The Paris Spy, the first of the series published in hardcover, then trade paperback, was a New York Times bestseller, Washington Post bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, and nominated for an Agatha Award. The Queen's Accomplice was a USA Today bestseller, a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, and nominated for a Barry Award. Roosevelt's Confidante, which was nominated for an Agatha Award. This was followed by The Prime Minister's Secret Agent, another New York Times Bestseller, and Lefty nominee, and, in 2015, by New York Times-bestseller Mrs. It was also nominated for an ITW Thriller Award. MacNeal's third novel, His Majesty's Hope, also appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and was named on 's Book of the Week and Seven Compulsively Readable Mysteries (for the Crazy-Smart Reader). Her next book, Princess Elizabeth's Spy, was nominated for Macavity Award’s Sue Federer Historical Memorial Award in 2013 Âudiofile, and was included on the New York Times Bestseller List on October 29, 2012. Churchill’s Secretary, was named as Best Paperback Original of 2012 by Deadly Pleasures, won a Barry Award and was nominated as Best First Novel by Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award It was also nominated as Best First Mystery Novel for Mystery Readers International's Macavity Award in 2013 and for the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association's 2013 Dilys Award

She started her writing career with two nonfiction books and articles on ballet, modern dance, and puppetry.

MacNeal's background is in publishing, working as an assistant to novelist John Irving and then as an editor at Random House, Viking Penguin, and D ance Magazine.

She cross-registered for classes at MIT and attended the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University. MacNeal attended Nardin Academy in Buffalo, New York, then graduated cum laude with special honors from Wellesley College in 1991 with a degree in English. Susan Elia MacNeal (born 1968) is an American author best known for her Maggie Hope mystery series of novels, which are set during World War II, mainly in London.

The Queen's Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal