Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, has taken on some diverse cases in her time. In Pardonable Lies, she receives an unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cecil Lawton's son Ralph really is dead. In Messenger of Truth when the death of a controversial artist is labelled an open and shut accidental death, Maisie accepts his sister's appeal to discover the truth. In An Incomplete Revenge an apparently straightforward of assignment to investigate a potential land purchase becomes fraught with theft and arson, Maisie must draw upon all her skills of detection to solve an intriguing case.

'A new Maisie Dobbs mystery is always a cause for celebration . . .fiendishly entertaining' Time Out