In This Grave Hour

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Call Number: Adult Book / Large Print / Fiction / Mystery / Winspear, Jacqueline
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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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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In this grave hour submitted by camelsamba on July 4, 2023, 12:13am As WW2 begins, Maisie is called upon to investigate the death of a Belgian WW1 refugee by a woman she knows there who thinks the police gave up too soon - and sure enough, that 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 London evacuee child named Anna, who gets billeted in Maisie’s house. The child refuses to talk, which adds to the difficulty. While Maisie is working on solving the murders, she is also trying to figure out Anna's back story. That element is quite satisfying.