In London, 1931, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist, isn't so sure. When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out an old classmate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent,...

Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.

Spring is a time for rebirth, so the last thing Maisie Dobbs wants to do is accept her stepmother's summons to head back to England to visit her aging father. Getting off her ship in Gibraltar, however, turns dangerous for Maisie when she learns of a Jewish photographer's murder and falls headfirst into a case that the British Secret Service cannot easily ignore.

It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...

Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Set in London between the two world wars.

Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.