Leaving everything most loved

London, 1933. An Indian gentleman has traveled to England to learn who killed his sister two months earlier, and he turns to Maisie Dobbs for help. Scotland Yard made no arrest, and there is reason to think the police never looked into the death as thoroughly as they should have.

The case grows harder when a second Indian woman is murdered, only hours before she was due to be interviewed. Maisie is now looking into the deaths of Indian immigrants in the city, with one victim already lost to her before she could be questioned.

She is not working with a clear head. Unfinished business from an earlier case keeps pulling at her attention, and a new development in her personal life adds a second distraction.

This is a historical mystery and an installment in the Maisie Dobbs series. It closes an important chapter in her life, so readers who have followed her will find it a turning point, while the investigation itself centers on a single, clearly drawn puzzle.