An incomplete revenge / Jacqueline Winspear.
In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time-even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases.
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- ISBN: 9780805082159
- ISBN: 0805082158
- ISBN: 9781602851269
- ISBN: 1602851263
- ISBN: 9780312428181
- ISBN: 0312428189
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2008.
- Copyright: ©2008
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Madison Main Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 30229100545192 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mars Hill Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 30229100429728 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F WINSPEAR (Text) | 30664100224184 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F WIN (Text) | 50503300211150 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 31111002522314 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bogue Banks | F WIN (Text) | 34208201959383 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Boonville Community Public Library | F WINSPEAR (Text) | 30005100214959 | Adult Fiction Mystery | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Winspear (Text) | 540191002342664 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | F WINSPEAR (Text) | 22281500047194 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | F WINSPEAR (Text) | 31781049137753 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time-even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases.
