Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series Book 9)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005UD1ECK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Long before the Downton Abbey craze, Jacqueline Winspear was writing remarkable mysteries about life in England circa WWI.” (New York Journal of Books)“Compelling.” (People (3 ½ out of 4 stars))“A detective series to savor.” (Johanna McGeary, Time)“A series that seems to get better with every entry.” (Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal)“When people ask me to recommend an author, one name consistently comes to mind: Jacqueline WinspearWinspear chronicles the uncharted, sometimes rocky path chosen by her protagonist and delivers results that are educational, unique, and wonderful.” (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today)“F
Sharon Isch said In which Maisie goes back to Lambeth and reconnects with her roots. In several years of browsing these pages, I've discovered that when Amazon reviewer/English professor Julia M. Walker recommends something in the mystery genre, it's worth looking into. Which is how I became belatedly acquainted some six or seven months ago with Maisie Dobbs, the Lambeth costermonger's daughter. . "Maisie's Case takes her back, literally and in time, to her old neighborhood" according to S J Perrott. I enjoyed reading about Maisie's approach to solving finding what had happened to an old childhood friend who died in what was made to appear an accident. There was nostalgia - revisiting characters from her childhood neighborhood before she went into service, and then was at Cambridge in school, and then the war. Earl A. Myers, Jr. said Did I Miss Something. I'm a huge fan of the Maisie Dobbs; however, I am somewhat mystified by Maisie's handling of her knowledge that three people were murdered, and she somehow is able to justify their killings to protect British national security. Yes, one of the characters was villainous and unsympathetic, causing the death of an u
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. In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series—“less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. 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
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, which includes A Dangerous Place, Leaving Everything Most Loved, Elegy for Eddie, A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, and six other novels. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.. Her standalone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Lit