The Hollywood Spy is the tenth and most recent (2021) in Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK and $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. (And probably on sale at Kobo UK too, but I don't check there...)
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KSPWVWH
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08KSPWVWH
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hollywood-spy
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KSPWVWH
Kindle UK/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KSPWVWH
Spoiler:
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Los 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. Up in the lush foothills of Hollywood, a woman floats lifeless in the pool of one of California’s trendiest hotels.
When 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 he’s right. Leaving London under siege is a lot to ask—but John was once the love of Maggie’s life . . . and she can’t say no.
Maggie struggles with seeing her lost love again, but more shocking is the realization that her 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 aren’t 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.
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