Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear&;s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities &;not in the interests of His Majesty&;s government.&; When the college&;s pacifist founder is murdered, Maisie finds herself in the midst of sinister web of murder, scandal, and conspiracy, activities that point towards members of the ascendant Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei&;the Nazi Party&;on Britain&;s shores. An instant classic, and sure to captivate long-time Maisie Dobbs fans as well as readers of Agatha Christie, Elizabeth George, and Alexander McCall Smith, A Lesson in Secrets is &;a powerful and complex novel, one that will linger in memory as a testament to her talent and her humanity&; (Richmond Times-Dispatch).