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).