{"product_id":"in-this-grave-hour-9780062644299","title":"In This Grave Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander.\" -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's \u003cem\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/em\u003e, on Maisie Dobbs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear's enormously popular \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on English soil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior 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, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the \"last war,\" a new kind of refugee -- an evacuee from London -- appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie's home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the \"Operation Pied Piper\" evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Maisie's search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour -- and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinspear, Jacqueline:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJacqueline Winspear is the author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers \u003cem\u003eThe Consequences of Fear, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe American Agent, To Die but Once, In This Grave Hour, Journey to Munich, A Dangerous Place, Leaving Everything Most Loved, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eElegy for Eddie\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as eight other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. Her standalone novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Care and Management of Lies\u003c\/em\u003e, was also a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller, and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Winspear has won numerous prizes, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, \u003cem\u003eMaisie Dobbs, \u003c\/em\u003e which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was named a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book. Originally from the United Kingdom, she lives in California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409547497746,"sku":"9780062644299","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_274d7943-81c3-4f07-ae4f-b0e4ec74c91a.jpg?v=1729290225","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-this-grave-hour-9780062644299","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}