The release date for the English version of 'Birds of a Feather' by
Jacqueline Winspear is Aug 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Maisie Dobbs has had an exciting year. Having begun as a one-woman private detective service in 1929 in London, she now operates a formal Fitzroy Square office with the gregarious Billy Beale as her assistant. She has shown her abilities as a psychologist and investigator, and she even managed to win over Detective Inspector Stratton of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. This is an impressive accomplishment for a lady who served as a battlefield medic during World War I and progressed from servant to scholar to sleuth.
Now, it's early spring 1930. A fugitive heiress has called Maisie to Dulwich, where Stratton is looking into a murder case in Coulsden. The lady is the daughter of affluent self-made man Joseph Waite, who has showered her with privileges while keeping her in a cage of gold. She had already fled from his controlling behavior, and now she has done it once again.
To locate and return his daughter home is Waite's directive. Upon investigating the disappearance, Maisie discovers a disturbing connection to both the horrific aftermath of World War I and Stratton's murder case.