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Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of...
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When a young man named Benjamin Nab claims to be his long-lost brother, 12-year-old Ren, an orphan, leaps at the chance for family and explanations into his past. But when Benjamin encourages Ren to join his band of grave robbers, Ren will have to choose between familial bonds and law-abiding, yet lonely solitude.
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