The Consequences of Fear: A spellbinding wartime mystery
By (Author) Jacqueline Winspear
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
23rd March 2021
United Kingdom
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Fiction
823.92
352
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
It is September 1941 and young Freddie Hackett is a message runner - he collects messages from a government office and delivers them to various destinations around London. On this particular day, he sets off with his message, along a route of bombed out houses and heaps of rubble, and comes across two men violently arguing. He rushes into the doorway of a bombed house and tries not to be seen - but from his vantage point he witnesses a murder.
After the killer goes on his way, Freddie finally comes out of hiding, but he has an envelope to deliver and all messages from that office are urgent. He arrives at the house and he could swear the man who answers the door is the very man he has just seen kill another. But is he Freddie flees, and reports what he has seen to the police but they brush him aside. It is then he remembers delivering a letter to Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator in Fitzroy Square - perhaps she will believe him and help solve the mystery
'Maisie Dobbs is a revelation' - Alexander McCall Smith
'Wry and immensely readable' - Daily Mail
'A series that seems to get better with every entry' - Wall Street Journal
'Excellent...In Winspear's capable hands, Maisie has evolved into a deeply sympathetic character. Readers w ill eagerly await her next outing.' - Publishers Weekly
Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in Kent and emigrated to the USA in 1990. She has written extensively for journals, newspapers and magazines, and has worked in book publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. The Maisie Dobbs series of crime novels is beloved by readers worldwide.