Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Prisoner in the Castle




The Prisoner in the Castle by Susan Elia MacNeal

     If you wanted to hide someone you can’t do better than an abandoned castle on a remote island off the coast of Scotland.  This is where the British Intelligence hides their own spies to “cool off,” the ones who know too much.  The seclusion is real with no information coming in or going out and only a family of caretakers with secrets of their own to cook and tend the contained.
     One day during dinner one of the prisoners mysteriously dies right in front of them. The next day, two more, and the next day two more.  One by one, in this secluded place cut off from everything and everyone, people are dying.  The murderer, and it is determined they are being poisoned, can only be among them. 
     Things turn hysterical.  Everyone is suspicious of each other.  Accusations are made.  Nerves are raw, fear is palpable. And still, people are dying. 
     Meanwhile, in London, it is discovered that signals are being sent from the island to German U-boats off the coast.  One of their own is a spy, a turncoat.
     Maggie, who refused to divulge her secret reason for being on the island when the others did, slowly works to find the spy and murderer among themselves. Is this person both? Are there two? And who can she trust?

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