"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as
Lisbeth Salander." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie
Dobbs Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration
of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into
Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an
urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who
escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier
during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons,
bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another
former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves
deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the "last war," a
new kind of refugee -- an evacuee from London -- appears in
Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie's home in Kent
does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the
child belongs to or who might have put her on the "Operation Pied
Piper" evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As
Maisie's search for the killer escalates, the country braces for
what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour -- and
Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own.
General
Imprint: |
Newbury House Publishers,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Maisie Dobbs Mysteries |
Release date: |
March 2017 |
Authors: |
Jacqueline Winspear
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
458 |
Edition: |
Large type / large print edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-264429-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
|
LSN: |
0-06-264429-7 |
Barcode: |
9780062644299 |
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