A review by melissa_who_reads
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear

4.0

Am enjoying this series quite a bit. The serious end deals with the aftermath of war -- which is quite profound after a disaster of a war like World War 1. Even more than 10 years later, the war is still having consequences for those still living -- and fresh wounds are opened up, grief is relived. Maisie is hired to confirm the death of a lawyer's son -- and though it is leading her to re-open some of her own fears and scars from the war, she continues, having traded her work for the lawyer's agreement to defend a fourteen-year-old accused of murdering her "uncle," a pimp who was prostituting her out. Meanwhile, her old school friend Priscilla asks her to look into the death of Pris' eldest brother, about which she knows nothing. The cases intertwine, the secret intelligence service is involved, and there is a spiritualist element involved. Maisie's life is in danger, and her bonds to her mentor are strained and tested.