Part of Maisie Dobbs, book 15
First published 2019
London, 1940. The Blitz rains terror from above as Maisie Dobbs receives an urgent visit from Robert MacFarlane. He brings troubling news: Catherine Saxon, an American war correspondent, has been found murdered in her London lodgings. British authorities have suppressed word of her death. MacFarlane arrives with Mark Scott, the American agent who once helped Maisie flee Munich in 1938. Now the US Department of Justice wants answers about Saxon's killing. Maisie must partner with Scott to uncover the truth behind the correspondent's murder. The investigation pulls her into a web connecting wartime propaganda to American political schemes operating on British soil. All the while, German bombs fall nightly on London. Maisie struggles to protect Anna, the young evacuee she hopes to adopt, while pursuing this perilous case. The murder inquiry threatens her closest friendship and opens her heart to the possibility of love once more.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, american, mystery, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: London, Munich
Period: 1940
365 pages · Hardcover · Harper