New Releases by Jacqueline Winspear

Joskus kadonneita on etsittävä aina henkimaailmaa myöten. Sotienvälisessä Englannissa seikkaileva mestarietsivä Maisie Dobbs selvittää kolmannen tapauksensa tavalla, jossa terävien hoksottimien lisäksi vaaditaan se kuuluisa naisen näkemys. Sir Cecil Lawton pestaa etsivä Maisie Dobbsin selvittämään ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa kadonneen lentäjäpoikansa Ralphin kohtaloa. Ralphin äiti ei koskaan hyväksynyt poikansa kuolemaa, mikä ajoi hänet paitsi hulluuden partaalle myös spiritistisiin istuntoihin. Tutkimukset saattavat Maisien yhteen vanhan ystävän Priscillan kanssa, jonka kolme veljeä kuolivat sodassa. Yhdellä heistä paljastuu olleen yllättävä yhteys kadonneeseen. Pystyykö Maisie selvittämään tapauksen, jossa hän joutuu silmäkkäin omien, kaikkein kipeimpien muistojensa kanssa? Jacqueline Winspear on englantilainen kirjailija, jonka historiallinen Maisie Dobbs -sarja on valloittanut sekä lukijoiden että kriitikoiden sydämen. Winspearin isoisän haavoittuminen ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa herätti hänessä kiinnostuksen paitsi sotaan myös sen jälkivaikutuksiin, joita hän pyrkii kirjoissaan kuvaamaan. Alun perin kustannus- ja markkinointialoilla työskennellyt Winspear muutti Yhdysvaltoihin vuonna 1990 ja toteutti pitkäaikaisen unelmansa ryhtyä kirjailijaksi.

Ihastuttavan Maisie Dobbs -sarjan toinen osa! Perinteisen jännitysviihteen ystävät hurmannut etsivä Maisie Dobbs selvittää ystävysten murhaa sotienvälisessä Englannissa. Lontoossa eletään kevättä 1930, kun älykäs ja kekseliäs yksityisetsivä Maisie Dobbs palkataan etsimään kadonnutta perijätärtä. Ensi alkuun yksinkertaiselta vaikuttava tapaus mutkistuu, kun perijättären ystävä löydetään kuolleena. Ja sitten toinen. Ja kolmas. Onko katoamisen ja murhien välillä yhteys? Tutkiessaan asiaa uuden apulaisensa Billie Bealen kanssa Maisie huomaa, että jäljet johtavat sota-aikaan, jonka koko Englanti niin kipeästi haluaisi jo jättää taakseen. Suosittu Maisie Dobbs -sarja on kuin tehty Elly Griffithsin ja Downton Abbeyn ystäville. Jacqueline Winspear on englantilainen kirjailija, jonka historiallinen Maisie Dobbs -sarja on valloittanut sekä lukijoiden että kriitikoiden sydämen. Winspearin isoisän haavoittuminen ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa herätti hänessä kiinnostuksen paitsi sotaan myös sen jälkivaikutuksiin, joita hän pyrkii kirjoissaan kuvaamaan. Alun perin kustannus- ja markkinointialoilla työskennellyt Winspear muutti Yhdysvaltoihin vuonna 1990 ja toteutti pitkäaikaisen unelmansa ryhtyä kirjailijaksi.

Las pérdidas sufridas en tiempos de guerra ayudan a comprender el dolor del que sí regresa Maisie Dobbs, la psicóloga y detective con intuición que da voz a los silenciosos, presencia a los invisibles y nombre a los olvidados. Nochebuena de 1931. Maisie Dobbs es testigo del suicidio de un hombre en una concurrida calle de Londres. Al día siguiente, el primer ministro recibe una carta en la que se amenaza con un atentado a una escala inimaginable, y en la que menciona a Maisie. Tras ser interrogada por el detective jefe Robert Mac-Farlane, de Scotland Yard, es nombrada asesora especial en este complicado caso. Mientras tanto, Billy Beale se enfrenta de nuevo a la tragedia cuando su mujer, que no se ha recuperado de la muerte de su hija pequeña, se desliza cada vez más hacia el abismo de la melancolía. Nunca has conocido a nadie como ella ¿POR QUÉ LEER ENTRE LOS OLVIDADOS? Entre los olvidados ha sido nominada al Premio Macavity por el Mejor Misterio Histórico. El sexto caso de la serie de misterio con ambientación histórica más esperada por los lectores. Una poderosa trama con las secuelas de aquellos que sobrevivieron a la Gran Guerra.

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series. “An outstanding historical series.”—The New York Times “Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.”—The Historical Novel Society Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future. London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.

1947. Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and former intelligence agent. Yet Elinor's private and seemingly tranquil existence conceals a past trauma that comes to the fore when she is drawn into the predicament of a local man entangled with one of the most dangerous crime families in London. A treacherous path lies ahead, but it may be one that ultimately leads Elinor to a future unshackled from her own painful history.

Londra, 1930. Maisie Dobbs, caschetto nero lucido e un velo di rossetto, è ormai una detective affermata. Accompagnata dal fedele assistente Billy Beale, risolve i suoi casi con grazia e intelligenza, battendo spesso sul tempo Scotland Yard e l’ispettore Stratton, cui la lega un rapporto misto di corteggiamento educato e conflittualità. Nei primi anni del nuovo decennio il mondo sfavilla di luci e divertimento, ma in Inghilterra le ferite della Grande Guerra non sono ancora del tutto rimarginate. Sono in molti a rivolgersi a sensitivi e spiritisti, nel disperato tentativo di scambiare ancora una parola con i cari perduti. È il caso della compianta moglie di Sir Cecil Lawton che, per via dell’intervento di una medium particolarmente priva di scrupoli, si era convinta che il figlio Ralph non fosse davvero deceduto in battaglia. È per questo che Sir Cecil ingaggia Maisie Dobbs: per avere conferma una volta per tutte che Ralph, disperso durante l’esplosione del suo areo in Francia, non è piú tra i vivi. Il caso, potenzialmente lucroso, turba però Maisie, che intuisce dietro la richiesta di Sir Cecil un conflitto irrisolto e un dolore ambiguo, carico di reticenza e paura. Per quanto tormentata dal dubbio, la donna decide comunque di accettare, ma a una condizione: che Sir Cecil difenda Avril Jarvis, una tredicenne che, accusata di omicidio da Scotland Yard, ha bisogno di un «avvocato miracoloso»: proprio ciò che Sir Cecil, barrister di alto rango, è. Con la sua prosa vivida e arguta, Jacqueline Winspear restituisce al lettore il fascino intatto di un’epoca remota, e i tormenti, le passioni, i dolori che la animano, cosí prossimi ai nostri. «Dopo il trionfo di Piume bianche, Piccole bugie si rivela ancora piú convincente dei capitoli precedenti della saga. Maisie Dobbs è un’eroina da celebrare». The New York Times Book Review «Con la saga di Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear ci ha fatto un vero regalo. Maisie Dobbs non è stata creata – è stata scoperta. Persone come lei si aggirano perennemente tra noi, in attesa che qualcuno come Winspear le scopra e le faccia conoscere al mondo». Alexander McCall Smith «Jacqueline Winspear ha un futuro radioso come autrice di crime». Daily Mail

“Maisie Dobbs já conquistou seu lugar no alto escalão das detetives literárias.” – Bookpage No terceiro caso de Maisie Dobbs, uma investigação aparentemente banal vai fazer com que a detetive enfrente adversários poderosos – e descubra segredos que talvez nunca devam ser revelados. “Os livros de Jacqueline Winspear mostram todo o potencial que o romance policial pode alcançar. Uma escritora fascinante.” – Sun Sentinel Em seu leito de morte, lady Agnes Lawton faz um último pedido ao marido, sir Cecil: ele deve descobrir o paradeiro do filho deles, Ralph. Segundo os documentos do governo britânico, o jovem teria morrido na Primeira Guerra, mas Agnes acredita que ele ainda está vivo, convencida por médiuns charlatões. Sir Cecil recorre aos serviços da psicóloga e investigadora Maisie Dobbs, que deve provar de uma vez por todas que Ralph morreu. A missão a leva de volta à França, onde ela precisa confrontar os próprios traumas da época em que serviu como enfermeira. Lá, ela reencontra sua antiga companheira dos tempos do conflito, que perdeu três irmãos para a guerra – e um deles tinha uma intrigante conexão com Ralph Lawton. Por trás da aparente simplicidade do caso, escondem-se segredos de pessoas poderosas, e Maisie percebe que sua vida está em perigo, precisando reavaliar até mesmo a lealdade a seu mentor e a seu país. Mais uma vez descrevendo com perfeição os costumes e a mentalidade da Europa na década de 1930, Jacqueline Winspear faz o leitor experimentar uma atmosfera única, emocionando-se com uma heroína arrebatadora.

El segundo caso de Maisie Dobbs, una detective con intuición.Nunca has conocido a nadie como ella.Una sólida novela de misterio que atrapa desde la primera página y una historia conmovedora que revela los lados más oscuros de la Gran Guerra.

Em seu novo caso, a brilhante psicóloga e investigadora Maisie Dobbs vai precisar revisitar suas memórias da Primeira Guerra Mundial para encontrar uma jovem desaparecida. "O que torna Maisie uma detetive tão notável é a filosofia de seus métodos sempre tão humanos. Uma heroína que vale a pena acompanhar." – The New York Times Book Review “Jacqueline Winspear pinta um retrato envolvente de uma época, sem deixar de lado o empolgante mistério.” – Publishers Weekly Um dos mais ricos comerciantes da Inglaterra, Joseph Waite sempre deu o melhor para a filha, Charlotte, mas jamais permitiu que ela tivesse uma vida livre. Na primavera de 1930, quando ela foge de casa, Waite mantém o caso longe da polícia e procura os serviços de Maisie Dobbs, conhecida por sua discrição e seus poderes de dedução. Em sua busca, ela se dá conta de que há conexões entre o desaparecimento da moça e um assassinato que está sendo investigado pelo inspetor Stratton, da Scotland Yard. Com sua perspicácia, Maisie já conquistou o respeito do detetive, mas vai precisar convencer a polícia – mais uma vez – de que uma mulher é tão capaz quanto um homem no combate ao crime. Ao descobrir que há ainda mais mortes envolvidas na trama, ela percebe que precisa desenterrar o passado traumático da Primeira Guerra e resolver o mistério antes que mais uma tragédia ocorra.

Londres, en 1931. La veille de l'ouverture d'une exposition de ses oeuvres, l'artiste controversé Nick Bassington-Hope est retrouvé mort. La nuque fracassée après une mauvaise chute. Pour la police, il n'y a pas de doute, c'est un tragique mais banal accident. Pourtant, la soeur jumelle de la victime est persuadée que son frère a été assassiné et engage Maisie Dobbs. La détective se rend compte que l'enquête a été bâclée. D'autant que le tableau qui devait être le clou de l'exposition a mystérieusement disparu. Est-ce un vol qui aurait mal tourné ? Ou bien le jeune artiste, qui fréquentait des gens peu recommandables, avait-il des ennemis ? Depuis les quartiers mal famés de Londres jusqu'aux hôtels particuliers de l'aristocratie, entre avidité et trahisons, Maisie Dobbs va naviguer dans des eaux troubles et dangereuses pour faire triompher une inavouable vérité...

A 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical “Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.”—Anne Lamott The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant, and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather’s shellshock; her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents’ years living with Romany Gypsies; and Winspear’s own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing chronicles a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.

Nel 1910 la tredicenne Maisie Dobbs prende servizio come cameriera in una elegante dimora di Belgravia, casa Compton. La moglie di Lord Julian Compton, Lady Rowan, una fervente suffragetta, non tarda a rendersi conto che la schiva ragazzina possiede una mente eccezionale, un’intelligenza così brillante da meritare più dell’angusto destino che il lavoro domestico potrebbe riservarle. Nulla di meglio, dunque, che indirizzarla presso l’amico Maurice Blanche, uno degli investigatori preferiti dall’élite europea del tempo. Un utile apprendistato prima di tentare di accedere al prestigioso Girton College di Cambridge. Lo scoppio della guerra, però, muta radicalmente le cose. Maisie si forma come infermiera e parte per la Francia, dove l’orrore non lascia scampo a niente e nessuno, nemmeno a lei. Rientrata in Inghilterra, nel 1929 la giovane donna decide di rilevare l’attività di Blanche e mettersi in proprio come investigatrice privata. Il suo primo caso, tuttavia, appare di poca rilevanza: il commerciante Christopher Davenham le chiede di indagare sulla presunta infedeltà della moglie Celia, una donna che sembra aver fatto della menzogna un’arte. Dopo tutto il tirocinio, tutti gli studi e i successi con Maurice Blanche, quel semplice caso di adulterio pare a Maisie un affronto. Ma la giovane investigatrice non si tira indietro. Non è forse vero che le cose straordinarie si camuffano sempre da cose qualsiasi? Maurice le ha insegnato a non dare nulla per scontato, e così ecco che, pedinando Celia Davenham, Maisie si ritrova nell’ultimo luogo in cui avrebbe pensato di trovarsi: il cimitero di Nether Green, dinnanzi a una lapide con inciso un nome e null’altro. Primo di una serie di avvincenti gialli ambientati negli anni Venti e Trenta, Un semplice caso di infedeltà presenta al lettore l’investigatrice privata Maisie Dobbs: geniale e intuitiva come Sherlock Holmes, decisa e determinata come Lisbeth Salander. «Avvincente, potente... con il fascino intramontabile del grande romanzo giallo». NPR «Uno dei romanzi crime più belli e influenti del nuovo secolo». Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine «Un delizioso mix di romanzo crime, storia d’amore e di guerra, ambientato nell’Inghilterra della prima guerra mondiale». Publishers Weekly

"Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming."--Anne Lamott The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant, and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather's shellshock; her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents' years living with Romany Gypsies; and Winspear's own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing chronicles a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.

An ebook-only sneak peek of New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs author Jaqueline Winspear's memoir, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing (on sale November 10, 2020). Features an excerpt from the book and an interview with the author. The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant, and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather’s shellshock; her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents’ years living with Romany Gypsies; and Winspear’s own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing chronicles a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice—Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitler’s Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon’s death. As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend—and the possibility that she might be falling in love again.

Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award Maisie Dobbs—one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction (Richmond Times Dispatch)—faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II. During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. Maisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future—and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality.

Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as the Bore War - nothing much seems to have happened yet - Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a 'hush-hush' government contract. As Maisie's inquiry reveals a possible link to the London underworld, so the country is bracing for a possible enemy invasion amid news of the British Expeditionary Force stranded along the French coast. And another mother is worried about a missing son - but this time the boy in question is one beloved by Maisie.

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs The thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear's enormously popular New York Times bestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on English soil. Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the “last war," a new kind of refugee — an evacuee from London — appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie’s home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the “Operation Pied Piper” evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As Maisie’s search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour — and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own.

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained, by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management, a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy?

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In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a scheduled interview. Meanwhile, unfinished business from a previous case becomes a distraction, as does a new development in Maisie's personal life. Bringing a crucial chapter in the life and times of Maisie Dobbs to a close, Leaving Everything Most Loved marks a pivotal moment in this outstanding mystery series.

In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series—“less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie” (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London’s highest circles of power. Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, or other Maisie Dobbs mysteries—and an ideal place for new readers to enter the series—Elegy for Eddie is an incomparable work of intrigue and ingenuity, full of intimate descriptions and beautifully painted scenes from between the World Wars, from one of the most highly acclaimed masters of mystery, Jacqueline Winspear.

"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.

In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time—even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases. Rich with Jacqueline Winspear's trademark period detail, this installment of the bestselling series, An Incomplete Revenge, is gripping, atmospheric, and utterly enthralling.

Christmas Eve,1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Home Secretary receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met. Maisie is invited into Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch as a special adviser on the case - and becomes involved in a race against time to find a man who soon proves he has the knowledge, and will, to murder thousands of innocent people. Before this harrowing case is over, Maisie must negotiate her way through a darkness not encountered since she was a nurse in wards filled with shell-shocked men. In Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet.

Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the next entry of the bestselling series

Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.

Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found--and lost--an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different. In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade.