Description
“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 In the summer of 1932, the career of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the British Secret Service. 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 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 shameful hidden truths about Britain’s conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising power of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei —the Nazi Party—as the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon. Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent , and To Die but Once , as well as thirteen other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels and The Care and Management of Lies , a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published two nonfiction books, What Would Maisie Do? and a memoir, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing .xa0Originally from the United Kingdom, she divides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest. Read more
Features & Highlights
- 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
- ).
