The mapping of love and death: a maisie dobbs novel - jacqueline winspear

In this latest installment in the New York Times-bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.

In this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.

August 1914.

As Michael Clifton is mapping land he has just purchased in Californias beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, war is declared in Europe--and duty-bound to his fathers native country, the young cartographer soon sets sail for England to serve in the British army.

Three years later, he is listed as missing in action.

April 1932.

After Michaels remains are unearthed in France, his parents retain London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs, hoping she can find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among their late sons belongings.

It is a quest that leads Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love--and to the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his dugout.

Suddenly an exposed web of intrigue and violence threatens to ensnare the dead soldiers family and even Maisie herself as she attempts to cope with the impending loss of her mentor and the unsettling awareness that she is once again falling in love.