The White Lady: A captivating stand-alone mystery from the author of the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series

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1947. Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and former intelligence agent.
Yet Elinor's private and seemingly tranquil existence conceals a past trauma that comes to the fore when she is drawn into the predicament of a local man entangled with one of the most dangerous crime families in London. Atreacherous path lies ahead, but it may be one that ultimately leads Elinor to a future unshackled from her own painful history.

Author Bio

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers A SunlitWeapon, The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, To Die but Once and InThis Grave Hour, as well as twelve other bestselling novels in theaward-winningMaisie Dobbs' series. Her WW 1 novel, The Care and Management of Lies,was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published twonon-fiction books, What Would Maisie Do and an Edgar-nominated memoir, ThisTime Next Year We'll Be Laughing. Originally from the United Kingdom,Winspear nowdivides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest.