The release date for the English version of 'The White Lady' by
Jacqueline Winspear is Mar 2023. 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.
Author of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series, Jacqueline Winspear, presents another remarkable heroine/sleuth in The White Lady. In this gripping tale, Elinor White, a former wartime agent who has been through two conflicts, is a trained killer, and is protective of her anonymity. The story follows her as she matures and comes of age as she is pulled back into the violent world that she has been so desperately trying to escape.
Elinor, a hesitant former agent with personal issues, must take on one of London's most deadly organized crime groups and expose corruption that extends from Scotland Yard to the top echelons of the government.
Britain after World War II, 1947. Elinor, sometimes known as "Miss White," is a 41-year-old English woman who lives in a tiny town in Kent so quietly that her other residents find her mysterious. Indeed, she might, given that Elinor resides on a "grace and favor" property—a unique honor bestowed to obedient Crown workers in appreciation for their national service. However, Elinor's military job had been very hazardous, and the people of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how much their enigmatic neighbor is still tormented by her past.
Miss White's cold attitude will need to be broken by the kid of young farmworker Jim Mackie and his wife, Rose; nonetheless, Jim and Elinor have a shared bond. He too is frantic to get away from his history. Elinor takes on the duty of defending her neighbors when the influential Mackie criminal family asks that their prodigal son return for a crucial assignment. She particularly targets Susie, who reminds Elinor of the worst day of her life.
Elinor's instincts and training from the wartime serve her well, but as she works to neutralize the threat to Jim, Rose, and Susie Mackie, she is quickly led by more powerful forces through a tunnel of smoke and mirrors where her former colleagues from the wartime, who are aware of the true events of 1944 and the horrific incident that precipitated her wartime suicide attempt, are compromised.
In the end, Elinor will confront a Mackie crime lord with a pistol in order to learn the real reason for the family's intense search for Jim and, in the process, expose the vast extent of their influence—as well as the secret that will set Elinor free from her past.