“The King’s Justice”, by Susan Elia McNeal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“The King’s Justice” is the ninth novel from author Susan Elia MacNeal to feature the flame-haired, British-born, America-raised protagonist Maggie Hope. I read this book without having read any of the previous eight in the series, and while I am always wary of jumping in on a long-running series late in the game, MacNeal keeps newcomers like myself in the picture with a judicious amount of back story, but not so much as to bore continuing readers with details that they already know. It’s March 1943, and London has survived the aerial Battle of Britain and the bombing campaign of the Blitz. “The King’s Justice” finds Maggie working with a bomb-disposal unit in London after earlier adventures with the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and time spent supporting the Metropolitan Police in apprehending a notorious sequential murderer (or serial killer, as we call them in the USA) known as the “Blackout Beast”. While the “Beast” sits in jail, a new killer has begun to stalk t...