Elise is the daughter of Clara and Maggie's half sister. She is a nurse at the Charitie hospital and discovers that the Nazis are euthanizing children with deformities. Working with a local priest, she looks for ways to save lives.

Maggie has just completed her SOE training following her prior mission protecting Princess Elizabeth. In London, she reconnects with Hugh for one night and finds that David has found Mr. Wright. However, her next mission comes quickly: carry radio supplies to Germany and plant a listening device in her mother, Clara's, study while attending party with a Nazi officer who is part of the underground resistance. Her mission is quickly completed at the party where she also meets Elise, but Maggie is offered a potential position with another Nazi official that seems too good to pass up.

The two women ultimately must work together to help Maggie and others escape but the results of the mission leave Maggie with physical and mental scars that may end her intelligence career.

book 3-KIRKUS REVIEWA dangerous trip to Berlin becomes a life-altering experience for a British spy.Maggie Hope is a Brit raised by an aunt in America who returned to London, where she learned many things about the supposedly dead parents she barely knew. Her father is a scientist working to break German codes, her mother a Nazi agent whom Maggie outwitted in her last adventure (Princess Elizabeth?s Spy, 2012). Now she has undergone rigorous training to be sent to Germany, where her quick wits and excellent German just may let her pull off a dangerous mission. She is parachuted into Germany, where she is posing as the girlfriend of Gottlieb Lerner, a Nazi who is really a devout Catholic involved with local priests working to thwart Nazi plans. Her job: deliver radio crystals and plant a microphone in the home office of her mother, Clara Hess. Maggie meets her half sister Elise, a nurse who has recently discovered that the government is busily carrying out their secret plan of race purification by killing children and others whom they consider defective in any way. Elise is boldly hiding a British pilot and the Jewish husband of a fellow nurse in her mother?s attic while working to find proof of the mass killings. When Maggie gets a chance to work for a Nazi involved in the program, a horrified Lerner tries to get her to return to Britain, but Maggie is determined to get proof that the program exists.Maggie continues her winning ways with more thrills and romantic problems, but this time, the horrors of her experiences add depth to the already pleasing adventures.

Oh dear. Such a disappointment. Partly because the series had been a bit on the fluffy, fuzzy side and with this book it is neither of those. It is dark and the main character loses her charm by the end of the book. Granted the story line is about the SOE and Hitler’s Germany (maybe too close to home to read?) but there is also an overwhelming thread of Catholicism from two of the characters to the point that there is much quoting of scripture. Given the fact that the CC was silently complicit to some extent, this is interesting. It was new to me, however, that two well known bishops and more priests did stand up and condemn Hitler and the camps. Nonetheless, this was a disturbing read in some ways: it seems to change its mood from the previous books; the main character undergoes a fundamental personality change; and the ending clearly hints at a sequel. The train went off the tracks for me. ( )

Wonderful third book in a series for which I anxiously await the fourth book!

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The third installment in this series is a little less fun and a little more dark than expected. That’s only because it exposes one of the most gruesome operations of the Nazis. The story revolves around how this exposé affects the lives of Maggie, Elise and Father Licht. Even on a broader level, this book describes how the actions in war might seem relevant during the situation but are more harder to accept in hindsight. Maggie’s character grows a lot in this book; she is courageous and able to quickly think on her feet in dangerous situations but she is still sensitive and finds it hard to reconcile with the evil in the world and her own actions. Even though there was hardly any mystery in this book, I think it’s a setup for character development and hopefully, better mysteries in the next books. ( )

In the third volume of the Maggie Hope series, Maggie becomes a member of SOE and is dropped outside of Berlin to pass on some radio crystals and to plant a microphone in her mother, Clara Hess's study. Here she meets people of the resistance and her sister, Elise Hess, a nurse who uncovers the German program to kill children who are less than perfect, and tries to save a downed British pilot and a German Jewish surgeon. As usual, she does not stick strictly to her orders, but becomes a companion to a Nazi bureaucrat's daughter. Again there are some instances where the editing could have been better, but it is a page-turner. ( )

I enjoyed reading Her Majesty's Hope. I'm very familiar with the era and the events of World War II, both in Germany and England. For those less knowledgeable, some of the events described will be very disturbing. I wondered why a few things were included, they seemed somewhat gratuitous but I presume they will be threads that are picked up in the next book and the reason they are there will become clear, as well as be integral to the story.

I thought the story of David Greene and his parents was resolved a little too neatly. In fact I felt that I had read the same story in one form or another in other books about the era.

Overall it is a good story and the background was well researched, using real people to give authenticity to the story.

I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway. ( )

I stopped reading this early on because I didn't like parts of the story line.

I am really enjoying this early-WWII-era series from MacNeal. The characters are fresh in the genre and immediately likeable. There is an air of both luxury and deprivation, from champagne flutes to bomb shelters, that flashes light and dark through the story and seems to propel the characters along. With the blessings of hindsight on our side, we get the feeling that this cycle vastly benefits the Britons, "stiff upper lip" and all that, and the same clinging-to-normality attitude is a sign of desperation in their German counterparts.

MacNeal's research must be impeccable; her immersion of characters in the humdrum details of their present day is fleshed out and real. Part of this might be because spies themselves must be highly aware of the details of their cover, but MacNeal could easily have phoned some of the little things in, but didn't. It indicates to me her dedication as an author, and as a reader I appreciate it for the lush story that results.

Following on that, I wish the historical notes at the end had a bit more further reading resources listed! I know very little about, and want to learn much more about, the moral-ethical-religious thinking of the early Third Reich, particularly the return to pagan Germanic beliefs and the "Brides of Hitler," one of whom Maggie Hope meets during her mission. The idea is mentioned twice, separately, in the book, so I wonder if the theme won't be further developed in the next installment. I won't say anything more -- Spoilers! ( )

This audiobook's reader used a terrible German accent and sounded like a metronome. I couldn't bear it and didn't even finish one disk. ( )

Maggie goes to Berlin on a mission, which she enlarges, to the detriment of herself and others. The plausibility of the plot, especially toward the end, was seriously stretched, but otherwise it was entertaining. ( )

I don't really want to rate this one, because I just didn't get into it. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't this. I might try again in the future.

I put this book down, all the explanation of the Nazi murders, what they did to Jewish men married to Aryan women and the description of Kinder-Euthanasie (Child Euthanasia) made me sick.

I also did not like the characters.... ( )

2013, Random House Audio, Read by Susan Duerden

Publisher’s Summary: adapted from Audible.com
World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive – a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad – and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart of the German war machine. Relying on her quick wit and keen instincts, Maggie infiltrates the highest level of Berlin society, gathering information to pass on to London headquarters. But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of the war – and of her own past.

My Review:
Again, as seems to be MacNeal’s style, there is a lot going on here: espionage, genocide, concentration camps, two more thought-to-be-dead characters make an appearance (that’s three in as many novels), and a love triangle. Maggie, working undercover, expertly liaises with high-ranking Nazi officers; and she hits her mark, too. But of course, the heroic mission comes at a cost – and a high personal cost for her, in this case. I’ve got the secondary characters sorted now and remain fully engaged with Maggie’s character. The series is not Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs, but I am enjoying, and will continue to listen. ( )

Each book gets better and better. Looking forward to reading number 4. If you want a book you can read in a day and enjoy, this series is it ( )

Each book gets better and better. Looking forward to reading number 4. If you want a book you can read in a day and enjoy, this series is it ( )

Each book gets better and better. Looking forward to reading number 4. If you want a book you can read in a day and enjoy, this series is it ( )

Each book gets better and better. Looking forward to reading number 4. If you want a book you can read in a day and enjoy, this series is it ( )

Another exciting installment in the Maggie Hope series. ( )

Bits and pieces of this novel seemed familiar to me...I wonder if it was used in some BBC Masterpiece Theatre episode. In any case, parts of it were almost believable. The trauma that all experienced in the end was realistic even if the escapades seemed too good to be true at times. And if course, I couldn't help but wonder what happened to those left behind. Perhaps in a later book the readers will find out! ( )

If it wasn't for the ending of this book I think this book deserved a 5, but the ending seemed rushed and off track to me. I was disappointed with the way the unflappable Maggie reacted to the completion of her first spy mission. The book was extremely fast-paced and had a really tight plot up until the last 5 or 6 chapters. The time is 1941 and WWII is in full play. At the beginning of the book we see Maggie, just fresh out of her spy school training taking her first mission into Nazi-run Berlin. She is tasked with two rather straight-forward tasks, and has no problems completing them once she is dropped into Germany. But then Maggie being Maggie, she discovers another line of inquiry and takes a position with a highly placed Nazi bureaucrat. She manages to get some valuable information from this man, but she puts herself in grave jeopardy which causes her to run from the house late at night before the SS come to pick her up. And then she's on the run in war-torn Germany. This series is really very enjoyable, mostly because of Maggie's gutsy and audacious personality. There is nothing that fazes her and she does whatever is necessary to complete her task. This attitude and her quick thinking carried the plot right through until the ending where we see Maggie have a very uncharacteristic breakdown. It certainly sets things up for an interesting fourth book in the series. ( )

I can't stop reading this series ( )

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Another excellent entry into the Maggie Hope mystery series- I think I might need to go back and reread this one, I read it too fast! ( )

Another excellent entry into the Maggie Hope mystery series- I think I might need to go back and reread this one, I read it too fast! ( )