Messenger of Truth
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805083583 (0805083588)
Publish date: August 28th 2006
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery
Series: Maisie Dobbs (#4)
Nick Bassington-Hope, a controversial artist who gets inspiration from those around him is found dead when hanging his latest exhibition. The police believe it's an accident but his twin sister doesn't believe it and engages Masie Dobbs to investigate. She discovers that Nick's wartime experience ...
This is the 4th installment in the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie is hired by a well-to-do journalist to investigate the presumed accidental death of her artist twin brother. With her usual methods blending traditional investigation techniques and psychology, Maisie dives into the life of the dead ar...
I enjoy this series very much. However the last two books had a deepening melancholy running through them which made me worry. I shouldn't have, the upward swing in tone at the end of this one was encouraging and I'm looking forward to starting book 5 (An Incomplete Revenge).
Messenger Of Truth, the fourth book in the Maisie Dobbs mystery series, is filled with a pervasive melancholy that casts its shadow upon Massie and her clients. Jacqueline Winspear masterfully creates a tangled emotional web in which Maisie, with her fine-tuned skills of sensitivity, is ensnared. ...