• Log into my account

You are here: Home > Fiction > Crime, Mystery & Thriller > Lesson in Secrets, A

Author: Jacqueline Winspear

Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780749040932
Pages: 0
Rights: UK & Comm ex Can
Pub. Date: 26th March 2012

Avg Reader Rating:

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

See Reader Reviews...

Price: £19.99

Format: Hardback

Other Editions:

• Paperback

Recommend this book

In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs's career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a college in Cambridge to monitor any activities, "not in the interests of His Majesty's Government."

When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance.

As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nazi Party. 

'This character development in the series is quite amazing...Maisie emerges as a complicated woman in this novel, and there is a strong romantic subplot to the main investigation of subversive behaviour on campus...There are many red herrings but Winspear develops the foils much more realistically than Agatha Christie ever could have.'Deadly Pleasures

                                                             Add your review »

                                  See full list »