Search - She Came Back (aka The Traveller Returns) (Miss Silver, Bk 9)

I really loved this book. It's the first Miss Silver book I've read, and it's sure not to be the last. This is a story of mistaken identity...or is it? No one is sure, until Miss Silver shows up to help solve this mystery, of who the woman is who has returned home after being thought dead for nearly four years. Is she who she says she is or not? A very good read.

You can't come home again...but maybe someone can, October 4, 2005
Reviewer: Gayle Surrette "omnivorous reader" (Brandywine, Maryland) -

A Miss Silver mystery though she doesn't show up until mid-way through the book. We start with a the return of a woman everyone thought had been buried 3 1/2 years ago. Her husband says it isn't her but other feel it would be terrible if you can home and no one wanted you any more. It seems a simple case of mistaken identity so long ago but it's the middle of WWII and things are never that simple.

Miss Silver and DS Frank Abbott think there's more going on with the death of a woman from the country, the mistaken identity, and the German spy network.

It's a quick read and the story is well laid out and the personalities all ring true in their confusion, anger, love, and hates. Rather more intricate plotting than in some other of Miss Siler mysteries.