02633cam a2200361 i 4500 1529093991 TxAuBib 20240827120000.0 231211s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023056228 9781641296069 hardcover $29.95 1641296062 hardcover $29.95 (OCoLC)1404819390 TxAuBib rda Winspear, Jacqueline, author. The Comfort of Ghosts. New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2024] 360 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Maisie Dobbs series Book 18 "London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft. As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband's life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, readers who are drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours - and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance at the worst of times. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie Dobbs and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War"-- Provided by publisher. 20240827. Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) Fiction. Orphans Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction. Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast Maisie Dobbs series Book 18. TXMLR