In 1933, two months after a murdered Indian woman named Usha Pramal was found dumped in the Grand Surrey Canal in Camberwell, the victim's anguished brother arrives in London and retains Maisie Dobbs to investigate the death, since Scotland Yard has made no progress in solving the murder. Indeed, it appears to Maisie that the police have conducted only the most cursory investigation at all.
But when Maisie begins to look into the matter a second woman --- another Indian woman staying in the same hostel who was friends with Usha --- is murdered in the same way just hours before she was due to meet with Maisie and reveal what she knew about Usha's activities and acquaintances in the weeks before her death.
As part of her investigation Maisie finds herself talking to other Indian immigrants living in London, and becomes more and more attracted to the history, culture and spirituality of India. All of the success she has achieved, the place she has made for herself, and the relationships she has established, though satisfying are not enough any more. She has a hunger to see more, to learn and to stretch herself in new and different directions. And so, as she pursues her case she also pursues an important decision: is it time to leave behind everything she most loves --- to break her heart so that she can open herself to new experiences and possibilities?
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