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Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability--and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father, Frankie Dobbs, is not getting any younger.

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained - by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed, just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management - a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come.

After 16 novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant, and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather’s shell shock; her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; and her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII.

As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message...

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting...

Nochebuena de 1931. Maisie Dobbs es testigo del suicidio de un hombre en una concurrida calle de Londres. Al día siguiente, el primer ministro recibe una carta en la que se amenaza con un atentado a una escala inimaginable, y en la que menciona a Maisie. Tras ser interrogada por el detective jefe Robert Mac-Farlane, de Scotland Yard, es nombrada asesora especial en este complicado caso.

Um dos mais ricos comerciantes da Inglaterra, Joseph Waite sempre deu o melhor para a filha, Charlotte, mas jamais permitiu que ela tivesse uma vida livre. Na primavera de 1930, quando ela foge de casa, Waite mantém o caso longe da polícia e procura os serviços de Maisie Dobbs, conhecida por sua discrição e seus poderes de dedução.

En el verano del año 1931, la situación económica en Londres sigue siendo muy difícil, y en los últimos meses la detective privada y psicóloga Maisie Dobbs ha empezado a preocuparse por la falta de trabajo. Sin embargo, ha aprovechado el tiempo libre para explorar sus habilidades creativas y apuntarse a un taller de telares. Maisie se siente aliviada cuando a principios de septiembre recibe una llamada de James Compton. El hijo de lord y lady Compton planea adquirir una fábrica de ladrillos y varios terrenos adjuntos en un remoto pueblo del condado de Kent, y le pide a Maisie que investigue la reputación del actual propietario.