The characters are all very believable although also very different from one another. Another great story from Jacqueline Winspear. Britain is approaching its gravest hour-and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own. Buy In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
They know only that her name is Anna.Īs Maisie’s search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. A New Hampshire cop tries to piece together a mysterious womans life following a car accident and discovers nothing is as it seems. 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. 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.
In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. 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. At the very 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.
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