Sunday, April 24, 2022

Ten female sleuths in long-running historical mystery series

Anna Lee Huber is the USA Today bestselling and Daphne award-winning author of the Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the anthology The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology.

Huber's latest mystery is A Perilous Perspective.

At CrimeReads she tagged ten favorite female sleuths in long-running historical mystery series, including:
Susan Elia MacNeal – Maggie Hope

MacNeal first introduces her clever and courageous heroine, Maggie Hope, in Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, where she works for the prime minister in the War Rooms in 1940. But Maggie’s intellect and daring soon see her sent on increasingly varied missions on behalf of British Intelligence, enabling MacNeal to explore various intriguing settings and aspects of the Second World War. Maggie breaks codes, slips into enemy-occupied territory, diffuses bombs, and rides motorcycles. She is as active as she is smart. In the tenth book in the Maggie Hope Mysteries, The Hollywood Spy, which released last summer, we learn that America was not without its nests of Nazi spies and collaborators.
Read about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.

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