Part of Maisie Dobbs, book 7
First published 2010
In 1932 London, private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives an unusual assignment from grieving parents. Their son Michael Clifton's remains have surfaced in France, eighteen years after he left California to fight for Britain in the Great War. Among his possessions, they found passionate letters from someone called "The English Nurse." Now they want Maisie to find this woman. The search pulls Maisie through London's wealthy mansions and impoverished streets. Each clue forces her to confront her own memories of nursing wounded soldiers during the war and a love affair that ended in heartbreak. What begins as a simple missing person case transforms into something far more dangerous. Maisie uncovers evidence of a crime that someone has kept buried for decades. The closer she gets to the truth about the English Nurse, the more she realizes that some secrets carry deadly consequences in the present.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, adult-fiction
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: London, France, California
Period: 1932
338 pages · Hardcover · Harper