Maisie Dobbs has been nominated for both Agatha and Edgar awards. (June 15)įorecast: A Top Ten Book Sense 76 pick for 2003, Readers will be eager to see more of the spunky Maisie, with her unusual career as a one-time maid, nurse and university student. As in her first novel, the author gives an intelligent and absorbing picture of the period, providing plentiful details for the history buff without detracting from the riveting mystery. Increasingly preoccupied with these tragedies, Maisie almost loses sight of her original mission, until it becomes apparent that the murders and Charlotte's disappearance are related. At each crime scene is left a white feather. No sooner has Maisie discovered the identities of three of these friends than they start turning up dead-poisoned, then bayoneted for good measure. With the help of her cockney assistant, Billy Beale, Maisie sets out to learn all she can of Charlotte's habits, character and friends. Maisie, "Psychologist and Investigator," as the brass nameplate on her office door declares, gets hired by a wealthy industrialist to find his only daughter, Charlotte Waite, who has gone missing. (2003), continues to beguile in this chilling, suspenseful sequel set in England a decade after the end of the Great War. The eponymous heroine of Winspear's promising debut, Maisie Dobbs
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