Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues Olive Bright's adventures as a young pigeoneer conscripted to aid the fight against the Nazis. Returning to Pipley after her FANY training, Olive is eager to contribute more to the war effort. Her pigeons are now tasked with aiding the Belgian resistance, and she must select the best birds for the mission. To maintain secrecy, she pretends to be romantically involved with her superior, Captain Jameson Aldridge, complicating matters since she genuinely has feelings for him. The stakes rise when an instructor at Station XVII, a secret training school, is found dead in Balls Wood by a troop of Girl Guides. While the police deem Lieutenant Jeremy Beckett’s death an accident, Olive suspects foul play based on clues she discovers at the scene. Determined to investigate, she enlists the reluctant Jamie to help her solve the murder, potentially averting a threat to their intelligence efforts that could endanger the Belgians and her pigeons. Olive's journey intertwines personal challenges with the larger fight against the Nazis, revealing the complexities of loyalty, love, and courage in wartime.
Stephanie Graves Books
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Olive Bright, Pigeoneer
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
As London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her racing pigeons, hoping that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not from the NPS. Instead, Jameson Aldridge and his associate are tied to a covert British intelligence organization known as Baker Street. If Olive wants her pigeons to help the war effort, she must do so in complete secrecy. When local busybody Miss Husselbee is found dead outside Olive's pigeon loft. Is the murder tied to Olive's new assignment? -- adapted from jacket