Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, which includes In This Grave Hour, Journey to Munich, A Dangerous Place, Leaving Everything Most Loved, Elegy for Eddie, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.
"Through it all she has solved sometimes harrowing cases with a
mixture of intelligence, intuition, determination and compassion
that makes her -- and it's an odd compliment, I know -- one of the
most soothing characters in crime fiction. Reading a Maisie Dobbs
book is a little like spending time with an old friend you don't
see often enough, if your old friend's gig is tracking down and
capturing criminals."--Tampa Bay Times
"Winning."--USA Today
"Books in the Maisie Dobbs series are always as much about the
heroine's ongoing journey as they are about the mysteries she
solves, and it's the big changes in her life that make this 15th
'Maisie' book one of the best."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Everything in this series turns on the psychological traumas of
war. That's what gives Maisie's sometimes prosaic cases their
sturdy backbone and air of urgency--that and Maisie's own dynamic
character. Hang on to your helmet and carry on, girl."--New York
Times Book Review
"Excellent.... In Winspear's capable hands, Maisie has evolved into
a deeply sympathetic character. Readers will eagerly await her next
outing."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Advances Maisie's inspiring activities, highlights the bravery of
an embattled people during the Second World War, and intimates that
lessons from that period have yet to be learned."--Kirkus
"The London blitz is the backdrop to Winspear's latest as the
inimitable Maisie Dobbs investigates the death of Catherin Saxon,
an intrepid American journalist determined to document wartime
Britain's hardships for the folks back home. An immersive tale of
wartime grit and grief."--Booklist
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