Maisie Dobbs
$41.82
- Paperback
1 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2014
Summary
After ten years with Penguin, Maisie Dobbs is back at Soho!“A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander.”-Maureen Corrigan, NPR’sFresh Air, on Maisie DobbsMaisie 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 Euro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616954079 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1616954078 |
| Author: | Jacqueline Winspear |
| Publisher: | Soho Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Soho Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Edition: | 10th |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Maisie Dobbs |
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Praise for Maisie Dobbs
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel
Macavity Award Winner for Best First Novel
Alex Award Winner
“Compelling … powerful. [Maisie Dobbs] testifies to the enduring allure of the traditional mystery … even though I knew what was coming this second time ‘round, its final scene is still a punch in the gut.”
—Maureen Corrigan for NPR’s Fresh Air
”[A] deft debut novel … Romantic readers sensing a story-within-a-story won’t be disappointed. But first they must be prepared to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment.”
—The New York Times
“The reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency … might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British counterpart … [Winspear] has created a winning character about whom readers will want to read more.”
—The Associated Press
”[Maisie Dobbs] catches the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman.”
—Chicago Tribune
“One of the best and most influential crime novels of the young century.”
—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
“A fine new sleuth for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously self-reliant and vulnerable, Maisie isn’t a character I’ll easily forget.”
—Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley series
“The book is much more than a cosy mystery—it is also about women’s growing emancipation and the profound changes to society after the First World War.”
—Mail on Sunday
“A delightful mix of mystery, war story and romance set in WWI–era England … A refreshing heroine, appealing secondary characters and an absorbing plot [make Winspear a] writer to watch.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“A poignant and compelling story … [Winspear handles] human drama with compassionate sensitivity while skillfully avoiding cloying sentimentality. At the end, the reader is left yearning for more. Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
About The Author
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of New York Timesbestsellers Among the Mad and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as eight other Maisie Dobbs novels. Originally from Kent, England, she now lives in California. This is her first book in the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Maisie Dobbs series.
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