by Jacqueline Winspear
I loved the first Maisie Dobbs book, and this was a nice follow up. I felt that there was a good development in the friendship between Maisie and Billy, and I got to know each of them better as characters. I really loved Maisie in the first book, her character, her history, and how she approached ...
While parts of this inter-war story are a little modern I still enjoyed it. Maisie Dobbs is an interesting character and the aftermath of World War I are tackled her. Including such issues as addiction and the White Feather Society. When the daughter of a self-made man goes missing, Maisie invest...
Another winning effort, further development of Maisie Dobbs, and another view of the times, as the book progresses, with flashbacks to before and during the "Great War" and the story placed in the aftermath. Again, well researched, telling the story in a way to illustrate the times as one might hav...
Second Maisie Dobbs mystery, and a book I am struggling desperately to remember. Ah, yes. There are several interesting twists involved, but I think I pinpointed my problem with the first book. I'm not very fond of Maisie's detecting style. I mean, mixing in a bit of psychology is fine, but there we...
I gave this second book in the Maisie Dobbs series a chance, after a lukewarm reaction to the first book. I ended up not really liking the second one either, which is a shame, because they have such great potential. A young, female detective in London in the years after World War I sounds like a gre...
My barely reading, but I started listening to this the other night. A perfect book for these ongoing brain-dead nights. I listen, and play solitaire.Maisie Dobbs wears after awhile. But the audio narrator was really good, which made up for a number of Winspear's faults.
I enjoyed the setting of this book, but felt there were too many odd modern references that pulled me out of the book. Maisie's detecting methods are odd - she verges on being a psychic detective, but the book stops short. I also thought the reference to the inventor of pilates was a bit silly. I...
This one I loved. Yes, I figured out the culprit but the setting of the 1930 in London is well done, Maisie is a strong character. Yes, she has a bit too much talent and luck in a life but I followed her lead with interest and was brought to care about the plot, the twists and turns and the characte...
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