"With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence of something amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and ultimately Maisie must draw on her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet."--
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ISBN:9780312428181 (paperback)
Physical Description:323 pages ; 21 cm regular print print
Publisher:New York : Picador/Henry Holt and Company, [2008]
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