Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, has taken on some diverse cases in her time. In Pardonable Lies , she receives an unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cecil Lawton's son Ralph really is dead. In Messenger of Truth when the death of a controversial artist is labelled an open and shut accidental death, Maisie accepts his sister's appeal to discover the truth. In An Incomplete Revenge an apparently straightforward of assignment to investigate a potential land purchase becomes fraught with theft and arson, Maisie must draw upon all her skills of detection to solve an intriguing case.

'A new Maisie Dobbs mystery is always a cause for celebration . . .fiendishly entertaining' Time Out

Jacqueline Winspear