

Only the pull of Maisie’s highly placed American husband, Mark Scott, allows her to question Crittenden. After Jo’s friend is killed during another plane delivery, Jo calls on Maisie, who’s living with her extended family in Kent, to investigate.

Matthias Crittenden is in deep trouble, and he'll be held for the murder of the missing soldier. Later, Jo realizes that in the segregated American Army, Pvt. When Jo and a friend return to the spot to investigate, they find a Black American soldier tied up in a barn who claims that his White soldier friend has been kidnapped. Jo Hardy, a pilot for Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary, is ferrying a plane across England when she's shot at from the ground. In 1942, Maisie Dobbs gets embroiled in diverse cases that involve her own family.
