The Comfort of Ghosts

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline WinspearΓÇÖs ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series. ΓÇ£An outstanding historical series.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe New York Times ΓÇ£Winspear is a brilliant writer,mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Historical Novel Society Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future. London1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansionΓÇöthe owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldiergravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseashas taken shelter with the group. MaisieΓÇÖs quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning MaisieΓÇÖs first husbandJames Comptonwho was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husbandΓÇÖs lifeshe is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followersreaders drawn to a woman who is of her timeyet familiar in oursΓÇöand who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her familybut serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.