

And yet there’s also such compassion, such kindness: killing a companion, the refugee societies, helping Louisa Mason look her best, caring for Anna, ensuring that Albert and Elizabeth will be together forever, caring about Robert Miller and Emma, and Maisie caring about those who work with her. Of widespread fears of all sorts from having a baby with war looming, of one’s children enlisting, of the false promises of politicians, of the different color of a person’s skin.

It’s a heartfelt lesson in secrets and why they’re not wise.

Thirteenth in the Maisie Dobbs history mystery series and revolving around a psychologist/private investigator - a female one in 1939 London. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Maisie Dobbs, Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies, Messenger of Truth, An Incomplete Revenge, A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, A Dangerous Place, Journey to Munich, To Die But Once, The American Agent It is part of the Maisie Dobbs #13 series and is a historical mystery in Hardcover edition that was published by Harper on Maand has 352 pages. In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.
