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The Southern California Booksellers Association has announced the nominees for its 2006 SCBA Book Awards in four categories. Included are five contenders in the Mystery division (and this book is one of them!): Pardonable Lies, by Jacqueline Winspear (Picador)
A new Maisie Dobbs novel from
award-winning
author Jacqueline Winspear
In the third novel of this unique and
masterly
crime series, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil
Lawton, KC, to
seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie
soon
learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in
the Great
War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but also to
the
doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit
world.
Determined to prove Ralph Lawton either dead or alive, Maisie is
plunged into a
case that tests her spiritual strength, as well as her regard for her
mentor,
Maurice Blanche. The mission will bring her to France and reunite her
with her
old friend Priscilla Evernden, who lost three brothers in the war, one
of whom
has an intriguing connection to the case.
Set against a finely drawn portrait of
life
between the World Wars, Pardonable Lies is "a thrilling
mystery that
will enthrall fans of Jacqueline Winspear's heroine and likely win her
new
ones" (Detroit Free Press).
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