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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