Mailbox Monday May 6th

Mailbox Monday is a weekly meme started years ago by Marcia (she of many blogs) who is no longer actively participating but who manages the string of wonderful Hosts for the weekly bloggers who do participate.  This month's hosting duties belong to Abi of 4 the Love of Books.  Thanks Abi for keeping this going so we can all see what's been landing in our mailboxes.  As you can see, Tutu still goes to the Post office, where I wait to see if there's a little yellow slip in my box telling me to go to the window to pick up my newest tome to add to my every growing pile of goodies to be read.


This week's treasures started off with a book I got through LibraryThing.com's Early Reviewer program: His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal.  It's number 3 in the Maggie Hope series and I was thrilled to be chosen to get it.  I've read the first two and loved them both.  Due out next week, here's what Bantam publishers has to say:

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretion can be deadly.

World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive—a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad—and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart of the German war machine. Relying on her quick wit and keen instincts, Maggie infiltrates the highest level of Berlin society, gathering information to pass on to London headquarters. But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of the war—and of her own past.

If you only get one book in a week, this is surely a good one to get!