This is one of the older Maisie Dobbs novels that I had somehow missed. It was still very readable even if it was out of order! If you love the 'old-time' detectives who do their solving using
their brains (like Sherlock, Miss Marple and Hercule) you will enjoy this series. Maisie is part detective and part psychologist. Her new case is an odd one. She has been asked to prove that someone is dead.
Before Agnes Lawton died, she tried everything possible to find out about her son who was supposedly killed in the war. She engaged the services of several psychic mediums and was convinced that he had not died. On her deathbed she begged her husband to grant one final wish - to find out what happened to him. The father, Sir Cecil Lawton, does not believe that his son is alive but feels compelled to grant that dying wish.
This case will take Maisie back to France where she will have to face the demons of war that still haunt her. An easy read with a great heroine. The backdrop of post WWI Europe makes these cases even more interesting to me.
(I listened to the audiobook and it was great.)
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