A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel: 8 - Softcover

Winspear, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061727717 ISBN 13: 9780061727719

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2012

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback-- the latest episode in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi party.

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear's award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government." When the college's pacifist founder is murdered, Maisie finds herself in the midst of sinister web of murder, scandal, and conspiracy, activities that point towards members of the ascendant Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei--the Nazi Party--on Britain's shores. An instant classic, and sure to captivate long-time Maisie Dobbs fans as well as readers of Agatha Christie, Elizabeth George, and Alexander McCall Smith, A Lesson in Secrets is "a powerful and complex novel, one that will linger in memory as a testament to her talent and her humanity" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 352 in Publisher: Harper Perennial In the summer of 1932. The withcareer of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs takes an in my field adequately new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the the itish Secret Service. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Camidge. she will monitor any activities not in the interests of His Majesty's government. When the college's controversial pacifist founder. Greville Liddicote. is murdered. however. Maisie is directed to stand back as her colleagues in Scotland Yard spearhead the investigation. But she soon discovers that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty members and students under her surveillance. To unravel this web. the investigator must overcome a reluctant Secret Service. discover sh...

Review

"Maisie is one of the great fictional heroines, equal parts haunted and haunting."--Parade

"The combination of period detail and intricate storytelling makes A Lesson in Secrets seem distant enough to be romantic but sufficiently modern to engage our sympathies."--Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"With an affecting storyline and graceful prose, Winspear has again created a powerful and complex novel, one that will linger in memory as a testament to her talent and her humanity."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061727717
• ISBN 13: 9780061727719
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336