With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As ...
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With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest-time even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a war-time zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases. "
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Good. 8 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. We will polish each individual Audio CD for a smooth quality of sound. Some library notation to the set. Enjoy this worthwhile AUDIO CD performance.
I very much enjoyed this and all of the authors Masie Dobbs books. I have given two to my sister who thinks there are great. I hope Jennifer Windspear keeps on writing them.
Spuntwine
Jan 20, 2011
Excellent!
Everything was perfect: service, condition, and read.
granmommy
May 14, 2009
Wonderful!
I have read all the books in the Maise Dobbs series and loved all of them. They are well written, exciting, and a great read. I recently purchased the entire series to send to my sisters.
