Maisie Dobbs must prove Sir Cedric’s aviator son, Ralph Lawton, died when shot down in 1917, and she reunites with Priscilla Evernden in the former battlefields of France, whose brother is somehow connected.
As Maisie investigates a runaway heiress with three dead friends, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.
Maisie Dobbs’ life takes strange turns from housemaid to graduate, nurse on the frontlines to private inquiry agent whose first case forces her to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.