In This Grave Hour

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Call Number: BOCD Mystery, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Mystery / Winspear, Jacqueline
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Mystery	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / Mystery / Winspear, Jacqueline	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Read by Orlagh Cassidy.
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on the deaths of a group of refugees, Maisie suspects the enemy may be closer than anyone knows.

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WWII begins submitted by camelsamba on July 3, 2023, 11:50pm World War 2 is just beginning, and London is on edge. Maisie is called upon to investigate the death of a Belgian WW1 refugee. The police chalk it up to theft gone wrong, but someone at the Belgian embassy is not so sure - and indeed, it was only the beginning of a series of similar deaths. I had a fairly good sense of who did it, at least a general sense of the kind of person, and a general sense of why, but not the specifics.

This book is also the beginning of a side plot about a young selectively-mute London evacuee child named Anna, who gets billeted in Maisie’s house. While Maisie is working on solving the murders, she is also trying to figure out Anna's back story. That element is quite satisfying.