In This Grave Hour

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3rd September 1939. A Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, during the Great War some twenty-three years earlier.

As Britain approaches its gravest hour and London is shadowed by the threat of invasion, another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the 'last war', an evacuee from London appears in Maisie's life, bringing the current crisis close to home just when Maisie nears a crossroads of her own.

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