Maisie Dobbs Books in Order

In 1945, as London tries to recover from war, Maisie is asked to inspect a Belgravia house and finds four traumatized teenagers and an ailing ex soldier squatting inside. Helping them draws her into a mystery that reaches back to her first husband and earlier cases.

In 1942, ferry pilot Jo Hardy survives ground fire while delivering a fighter plane, then discovers an American airman bound and gagged in a barn. After tragedy strikes a fellow pilot, Jo asks Maisie to investigate, uncovering racism, sabotage, and a threat linked to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit.

Twelve year old message runner Freddie Hackett sees a man stabbed in a bombed out London street, then later recognizes the killer at the door where he delivers his orders. When no one believes him, he turns to Maisie, drawing her into a perilous intelligence battle.

During the London Blitz, American war correspondent Catherine Saxon is found dead in her flat and the news is quietly suppressed. Working with US agent Mark Scott, Maisie investigates Catherine's tangled loyalties while trying to protect the young evacuee she hopes to adopt.

In 1940, a worried couple asks Maisie to look into the disappearance of their teenage son Joe, an apprentice painter working on a hush hush government contract. Her search uncovers dangerous corruption, organized crime, and a link to the desperate evacuation at Dunkirk.

On the day Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Maisie is asked to find who is killing former Belgian refugees once rescued as children. As London prepares for air raids, she juggles the investigation with caring for a silent evacuee billeted in her Kent home.

In early 1938, Maisie is recruited by British intelligence to pose as the daughter of a political prisoner held in Dachau. Traveling into Nazi Germany, she must navigate secret police, old enemies, and her own unresolved grief to bring the man safely home.

Grief stricken and unwilling to return to her old life, Maisie breaks her journey home and lands alone in Gibraltar in 1937. There she discovers the murdered body of a photographer and is pulled into a web of espionage, refugees, and Spanish Civil War politics.

When the body of Usha Pramal, an Indian woman living in a London hostel, is pulled from a canal, her grieving brother hires Maisie to investigate. The case draws Maisie into immigrant communities, questions of race and belonging, and a turning point in her own personal life.

A group of London costermongers ask Maisie to look into the sudden death of Eddie Pettit, a gentle man with an uncanny way with horses. Her search through Lambeth's streets leads her to powerful newspaper interests and uneasy signs of another war gathering in Europe.

Working undercover for Special Branch, Maisie poses as a lecturer at a small pacifist college in Cambridge. When the school's founder is murdered, she must balance her covert brief with a very public inquiry that reaches into Britain's buried wartime history and budding fascist groups.

The remains of Michael Clifton, a young American cartographer killed in the Great War, are uncovered in France years later. Hired by his parents, Maisie searches for the English nurse who loved him and discovers evidence that Michael was murdered, not lost in battle.

On Christmas Eve 1931, Maisie witnesses a desperate man kill himself on a London street. When a threatening letter to the government mentions her by name, she joins Special Branch in a frantic search for a damaged veteran planning mass murder.

Sent to a Kent village to look into a proposed land purchase, Maisie finds a community haunted by Zeppelin raids, arson, and petty crime. Among hop pickers and Roma camps, she uncovers long buried resentments and a secret that has poisoned the town for decades.

On the eve of a major exhibition, controversial artist Nick Bassington Hope falls to his death in a London gallery. Hired by his twin sister, Maisie delves into his war service, family secrets, and the darker corners of the interwar art world.

A dying woman begs her husband to learn the truth about their aviator son, officially listed as killed in action. Maisie travels from London to war scarred France, investigating spiritualists and old comrades while revisiting her own battlefield losses.

Maisie is hired by a self made magnate to find his runaway daughter, a sheltered heiress who has vanished from her gilded life. As Maisie searches, she links the missing woman to a string of suspicious deaths tied to wartime guilt.

In 1929 London, former housemaid and wartime nurse Maisie Dobbs opens her own practice as a psychologist and investigator. Her first case, a suspected infidelity, uncovers a secret refuge for broken veterans and forces her to confront memories from the Great War.