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Violence
Some
Murders connected to espionage; wartime danger; historical violence
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; Maisie's developing personal life
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Very strong; the horror of a generation for whom this is their second war; what it does to refugees to begin again; Maisie at her most personally vulnerable
What this book is about
The thirteenth Maisie Dobbs novel opens on September 3rd, 1939 — the day Britain declares war on Germany. Belgian refugees who fled the last war are being found dead, and the investigation leads Maisie into espionage territory and the particular grief of people who survived one war only to find themselves at the beginning of another.
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