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Set in the early 1930s, this installment of the Maisie Dobbs series follows the detective as she investigates the suspicious death of Eddie Pettit, a gentle, intellectually disabled man known for his work with horses. The tragedy draws Maisie back to her own childhood roots in Lambeth, where she must navigate the loyalties and secrets of the tight-knit community she once left behind. As she probes deeper, the case reveals tensions between tradition and progress, and the cost of social change on ordinary lives.
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