by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie gets caught up in Secret Service stuff investigating a college in Cambridge and at the same time trying to work out what happened with Sandra, a girl she knew from service. Her work as a detective has become complicated by her mission and she's trying to do the best for herself and for other...
Reading this series always puts me in mind of sitting on the banks of a slowly moving river on a beautiful early summer day. I feel absolutely wonderful reading these books even if they are about murder and the effects of war. The only thing that bothers me is that I honestly can not give them 5 sta...
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Another excellent novel by J. Winspear, furthering the development of Maisie Dobbs, and bringing closer to an end the period between the wars, with touching foreshadowing on developments that are certainly to come with the adolescent children of her friends on the eve of the Second World War. Again...
3 1/2 stars
It might just be my mood and my distractability at this time. But I had a hard time connecting with this story and found myself frustrated by Maisie's tendency to think she knows what's best for everyone. She's a bit of a busy body who puts me in mind of C. S. Lewis's quote, "She's the sort of woman...
I was delighted to receive this book through the GoodReads giveaway although I was a bit dubious at it being the 8th in a series.While it refers to events in the first 7 books you really don't need to read them to both understand and become immersed in this one. Enough information is imparted along ...
Lackluster characterization and passive writing. Not my cuppa tea, but the mystery was good.FTC: Review copy provided by the publisherSometimes coming to a series in the middle just doesn't work. This was one of those times. Although many love Maisie Dobbs, the book just didn't click with me. Everyt...
In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs’s career goes in an exciting new direction when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities “not in the...
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