Leaving Everything Most Loved - Tapa blanda

A thoughtful, probing series....As in all books, it's Maisie's extraordinary empathy that strikes a chord. Like any typical PI, Maisie is preternaturally acute and given to noticing tiny details, but it's her compassion that allows her to illuminate some of the most pressing and staggeringly painful issues of her day, delivering unexpected answers and sense of peace to her clients-and her readers. (9 Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read, Oprah.com)

A work of great humanity and a stellar entry in a superb series. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

In this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, Maisie investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London.

London, 1933. Some two months after the body of Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a south-London canal, Maisie Dobbs is contacted by the dead woman's brother, newly arrived from India, to find her killer. Scotland Yard made no arrests in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. Usha had spent several years living in an Ayah's Hostel, a place where lodging was offered to women who had left India with their British employers, only to be turned out penniless when their services were no longer needed.

But Maisie soon finds out that Usha is somewhat different and the case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman, scheduled to meet with Maisie to talk about Usha, is found murdered just hours before the interview. As Maisie becomes immersed in a culture that already holds a fascination for her, she continues to struggle with the unfinished business of a previous case, and also with the pull of travel and her desire to follow in the footsteps of her former mentor, Maurice Blanche, and see more of the world. At the same time, her lover, James Compton, gives her an ultimatum that she can't ignore.