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Susan Elia MacNeal Books in Order

Susan Elia MacNeal has written 14 books, published between 2004 and 2024. The first book is Wedding Zen: Calming Wisdom for the Bride (2004) and the newest is The Last Hope (2024). Publication order is the reading order below. 11 of the 14 books listed here are in the Maggie Hope series, which has its own page: Maggie Hope books in order.

Books
14
Published
2004–2024
Confirmed
14 of 14 titles
Pages on record
3,632 in 12 of 14 books
Reading time
61–91 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,632 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

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Maggie Hope, an American working in wartime Britain, carries Susan Elia MacNeal's historical spy series from Mr. Churchill's Secretary (2012). Women spies, cryptography and undercover operations during the Second World War are the recurring subjects. MacNeal's catalogue opens earlier with non-fiction, Wedding Zen (2004) and Infused (2006), and runs to 14 titles through The Last Hope in 2024.

Maggie Hope is written as British-born but raised in America, and the series follows her working undercover as a codebreaker while balancing personal challenges with the pressures of wartime life.

How many Susan Elia MacNeal books are there?

Susan Elia MacNeal has 14 books, released between 2004 and 2024. 11 of them belong to the Maggie Hope series.

Susan Elia MacNeal Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Susan Elia MacNeal books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Wedding Zen: Calming Wisdom for the Bride by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 1 of the Susan Elia MacNeal Non-Fiction series
  2. Cover of Infused: 100 Recipes for Infused Liqueurs and Cocktails by Susan Elia MacNeal (2006)
  3. Cover of Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 1 of the Maggie Hope series (2012)
  4. Cover of Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 2 of the Maggie Hope series (2012)
  5. Cover of His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 3 of the Maggie Hope series (2013)
  6. Cover of Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 5 of the Maggie Hope series (2015)
  7. Cover of The Queen's Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 6 of the Maggie Hope series (2016)
  8. Cover of The Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 7 of the Maggie Hope series (2017)
  9. Cover of The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 9 of the Maggie Hope series (2020)
  10. Cover of The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 10 of the Maggie Hope series (2021)
  11. Cover of Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 1 of the Susan Elia MacNeal Standalone Novels series (2022)
  12. Cover of The Last Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal, book 11 of the Maggie Hope series (2024)
  1. 1
    Wedding Zen: Calming Wisdom for the BrideSusan Elia MacNeal Non-Fiction #12004 · 93 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200493
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  2. 2
    Infused: 100 Recipes for Infused Liqueurs and CocktailsSusan Elia MacNeal Non-Fiction #22006 · 151 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006151
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  3. 3
    Mr. Churchill's SecretaryMaggie Hope #12012 · 373 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012373
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  4. 4
    Princess Elizabeth's SpyMaggie Hope #22012 · 369 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012369
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  5. 5
    His Majesty's HopeMaggie Hope #32013 · 354 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2013354
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  6. 6
    The Prime Minister's Secret AgentMaggie Hope #42014 · 306 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014306
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  7. 7
    Mrs. Roosevelt’s ConfidanteMaggie Hope #52015 · 337 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015337
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Queen's AccompliceMaggie Hope #62016 · 353 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016353
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    The Paris SpyMaggie Hope #72017 · 301 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2017301
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  10. 10
    The Prisoner in the CastleMaggie Hope #82018 · 306 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018306
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  11. 11
    The King's JusticeMaggie Hope #92020 · 337 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2020337
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    The Hollywood SpyMaggie Hope #102021 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2021352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Mother Daughter Traitor SpySusan Elia MacNeal Standalone Novels #12022 · confirmed 4/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    The Last HopeMaggie Hope #112024 · confirmed 4/4
    2024–
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Susan Elia MacNeal series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Susan Elia MacNeal books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Susan Elia MacNeal Non-Fiction

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Susan Elia MacNeal Standalone Novels

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Susan Elia MacNeal books in order?

You only need to read Susan Elia MacNeal books in order within the Maggie Hope series, which holds 11 of the 14 Susan Elia MacNeal books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Susan Elia MacNeal

Start with Mr. Churchill's Secretary (2012), the first Maggie Hope book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Wedding Zen: Calming Wisdom for the Bride (2004).

What is the newest Susan Elia MacNeal book?

The Last Hope (2024) is the newest Susan Elia MacNeal book released so far.

Is there a new Susan Elia MacNeal book coming?

No next Susan Elia MacNeal book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Susan Elia MacNeal at a glance

Still publishing
Susan Elia MacNeal published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Susan Elia MacNeal books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,632 pages across the 12 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 337 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Susan Elia MacNeal books, 8 of 14, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
12 of the 14 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the Susan Elia MacNeal books are about

12 of the 14 Susan Elia MacNeal books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: world war, 1939-1945 is tagged on 8 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

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