Jacqueline Winspear

When the body of an Indian woman is found in a south London canal, Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate by the victim's brother, a task that takes Maisie into a dangerous, and unexpected, exotic world.

A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Leaving Everything Most Loved

London, 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered in a South London canal, her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. Before her death, Usha was staying at an ayah’s hostel, a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out. As Maisie learns, Usha was different from the hostel’s other lodgers. But with this discovery comes new danger — soon another Indian woman who was close to Usha is found murdered before she can speak out. As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet alluring subculture, her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case. And at the same time her lover, James Compton, gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore...

The bestselling inter-war mystery series

Melody Izard

Makes sure it gives you all the back data. If you must start in the middle of the series, this is one to do it with. But I'd start with #1 if I were you.

She makes some big changes at the end. Well....she leaves everything most loved.

Leaving Everything Most Loved A Maisie Dobbs Novel

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