Review: In This Grave Hour (The Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series)

Reading this instalment of Maisie Dobbs at this moment in history feels so apposite. It begins in 1939 with Britain declaring war and the general feeling of fear and uncertainty that follows is exactly how our world feels now.

As always, Winspear paints pictures with her words and you can see Maisie and her colleagues as they investigate a series of murders of former Belgian refugees. There is the usual intrigue, and all our familiar characters are in play. If you have followed Maisie from the start, these people are a bit like family and you will care very much what happens to them all.

In this Grave Hour is another engrossing novel from Winspear. Maisie is living through an extraordinary time in history, as we all are now.

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• Jacqueline Winspear