Pardonable Lies / Jaqueline Winspear / 415 pages / 2 Turtle Doves December Challenge

This third Maisy Dobbs book finds Ms. Dobbs investigating the death of a veteran of World War I.  She has taken this assignment in exchange for a notable attorney's agreement to represent a fourteen year old accused of murder.  The attorney believes the reports that his son died in a fiery crash when his plane went down on a mission.  His wife believed her son to still be alive and her deathbed wish was that he be found.  This is a wonderful atmospheric piece for the period during and after World War I and deals with, what would have been at the time, a most controversial topic.