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Christmas Eve 1931 London finds former war nurse Maisie Dobbs on a client’s call when she witnesses a man's suicide on a crowded street. The next day, a letter sent to the prime minister’s office threatens a catastrophic loss of life unless demands are met, and the writer names Maisie in the missive. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, she is asked to serve as his special adviser on the investigation. Meanwhile, her trusted assistant, Billy Beale, struggles as his wife, still haunted by her own wartime loss, slips deeper into melancholia. Maisie is thrust into a race against time to locate a man who possesses the knowledge and will to unleash death on thousands of innocent people, all while confronting a darkness that has not been faced since her nursing days among shell‑shocked soldiers.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Jacqueline Winspear
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