In This Grave Hour is Winspear at her best. Touched at her core, she makes arrangements for the child to be cared for as she searches for the little girls caretaker. While unraveling the knots in the case, Maisie intervenes in the situation of a little girl found alone in a railway station during the evacuation of children from London in anticipation of German air raids and invasion. British police see the murders as random robberies. Maisie also suspects her contact in the Belgian embassy is not being forthright with her. Maisie peels back the layers of the victims lives to discover connections that have their roots in Belgium. They elected to remain in England after the war. The victims were evacuated while children during the First World War. In what appears to be an unrelated matter, a foreign government asks Maisie to investigate a series of murders.
The story opens on September 3rd, 1939the day England declared war on Germany. The story is intricately plotted with subtle clues. This book is as intriguing and enjoyable as the first and all the others in the series. This is the thirteenth novel in the Maisie Dobbs series. In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
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