In This Grave Hour (e-bog) af Winspear, Jacqueline
Winspear, Jacqueline (forfatter)

In This Grave Hour e-bog

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&quote;A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander.&quote; Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsThe thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear's enormously popularNew York Timesbestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary p...
E-bog 97,26 DKK
Forfattere Winspear, Jacqueline (forfatter)
Forlag Harper
Udgivet 14 marts 2017
Længde 368 sider
Genrer Classic crime and mystery fiction
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780062436610
"e;A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander."e; Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsThe thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear's enormously popularNew York Timesbestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on English soil.Sunday September 3rd 1939.At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britains declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered.And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the last war,"e; a new kind of refugee an evacuee from London appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisies home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the Operation Pied Piper evacuee train.They know only that her name is Anna.As Maisies search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come.Britain is approaching its gravest hour and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own.