The White Lady - Paperback Book - A captivating stand-alone mystery from the author of the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series - by Jacqueline Winspear - 9780749029234 - Allison & Busby

Dimensions: 19.9cm x 12.8cm x 2.7cm - 1947. Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and former intelligence agent. Yet Elinor's private and seemingly tranquil existence conceals a past trauma that comes to the fore when she is drawn into the predicament of a local man entangled with one of the most dangerous crime families in London.A treacherous path lies ahead, but it may be one that ultimately leads Elinor to a future unshackled from her own painful history.