Jacqueline Winspear

In This Grave Hour (eBook, ePUB)

A Maisie Dobbs Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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's 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.

Within days, in a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters, and the threat of invasion, 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 refugeean evacuee from Londonappears in Maisie's life.

While Maisie's search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hourand Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062436610
• Artikelnr.: 45991582

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, and To Die but Once, as well as thirteen other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels and The Care and Management of Lies, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published two nonfiction books, What Would Maisie Do? and a memoir, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing. Originally from the United Kingdom, she divides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest.