Maisie Dobbs-‘a feminine investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander’ (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s OXYGEN), faces risk and intrigue on the house front during World War II with this poignant access (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear’s NY Moments bestselling series-‘a series that seems to progress with every entrance’ (Tom Holland, Wall structure Street Journal).

Planting season 1940. With Britons facing what is becoming known as ‘the Bore War’-nothing very much seems to have happened yet-Maisie about To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Book Dobbs can be asked to investigate the disappearance of an area lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a ‘hush-hush’ authorities agreement. As Maisie’s inquiry reveals a possible connect to the London underworld, another mom is concerned about a lacking son-but this time the boy involved is one beloved by Maisie.

Seeing that USA Today’s Robert Bianco says, ‘with clearness and overall economy, Winspear lays the historical groundwork . . The establishing matters, but what may matter more is the wonderful, sometimes poetic way Winspear pushes her heroine ahead. . . . May she shine within the literary picture for many books to come.’