Sunday, September 3, 1939; Neville Chamberlain has just announced to the
nation that a state of war exists between Britain and Germany. Fear
grips the nation, because it wasn’t that long ago that they had just
finished a war. Moments later, Maisie Dobbs is called to investigate a
murder; one that was done execution style on a Belgian refugee from the
first war.
Maisie immediately sets to work on the case with her assistants Billy
Beale and Sandra Pickering. However she is concerned that her client
may be holding back vital information. That same day another man is
killed in the same manner. Are the two cases linked? If so, how and
why?
Meantime, children have been evacuated from London. Three of them are
at the farm where Maisie’s dad and step-mother work. Her dad puts the
two rambunctious boys to work with the horses, however her step-mother
is concerned about the little girl who refuses to speak and has no
identity card.
Maisie’s latest crisis is quick in coming when she discovers the bodies
of two women who might have been able to provide her with more
information on her case. She determines through her research that the
men knew each other, either based on where they came from or by escaping
Belgium together. There is another man she hopes to reach soon because
he could be a potential victim, too.
Author Jacqueline Winspear’s mystery has two mysteries. Can the
heroine, Maisie Dobbs, and her team solve both before more deaths
occur? Will Maisie’s resolution to be strong hold true? A good read,
and hard to put down.
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