Praise for the Maisie Dobbs Series
“In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline
Winspear has given us a real gift. Maisie Dobbs has not been
created—she has been discovered. Such people are always there
amongst us, waiting for somebody like Ms. Winspear to come along and
reveal them. And what a revelation it is!”
--Alexander McCall
Smith
“When people ask me to recommend an
author, one name consistently comes to mind: Jacqueline Winspear ….
In this series, Winspear chronicles the uncharted, sometimes rocky
path chosen by her protagonist and delivers results that are
educational, unique and wonderful.”
--USA Today
“A sleuth to treasure.” --The
New York Times Book Review
“The mood and atmosphere of the
period ring with authenticity, and the class tension that underlies
many of Maisie's dealings lends the narrative extra sparkle.”
--San Francisco Chronicle
“[A] superior series.” --The
Seattle Times
“[Winspear] keep[s] her series
about the astonishing Maisie Dobbs alive and as fresh as new
paint…In each book, Winspear has used a crime to widen our vision of
what life was like in England in the years after the war.”
--Chicago Tribune
“Jacqueline Winspear has opened the
eyes of many American readers to a forgotten world … Winspear excels
in depicting trauma, the kind of long-term grief that characters,
particularly her restrained Britons, express only in a gesture or a
word.”
--Boston Globe
“A detective series to savor.” --Time
"The reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency . . . might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British counterpart. The main characters of both books are doing something unusual for women. Both are highly intelligent, unflappable, and brimming with empathy and common sense . . . Winspear has created a winning character about whom readers will want to read more."
--The Associated Press
"[Maisie Dobbs] resonates with the same sense of sadness and waste about England’s role in World War I as Charles Todd’s superb series about shell-shocked Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge . . . catching the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman."
--Chicago Tribune
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