![]() ![]() Maisie, her family and her friends often reckon with the costs of war, but they also tend to struggle with their own fears about it. Thus begins another Maisie Dobbs mystery, in which our beloved private investigator is plunged into a case that sometimes seems far from the podiums and big historical moments of the London Blitz. Though he's standing right in front of the killer, could Freddie have imagined it all? Could he have been wrong about witnessing a murder? Might he have been mistaken? Crowded in the doorway, Freddie spies a big bloke who "looks like a film star." More flashes of light, then Freddie sees the snarling man push the knife straight into the other man's left side. There's shouting, then the two men are struggling, hanging onto each other. The man ahead is illuminated by a bomber's moon and the falling incendiaries. ![]() ![]() Young Freddie Hackett, a moving target, keeps running. "Love must be cradled gently.""Like big death-dealing insects," the German bombers blacken the sky. ![]() The Consequences of Fear (A Maisie Dobbs Novel) Book review: Jacqueline Winspear's *The Consequences of Fear (A Maisie Dobbs Novel)* ![]()
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