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Zusatztext 'This award-winning author has added another action-packed! well-plotted mystery to her series. It moves at a cracking pace... Good twist ending - very Agatha Christie' Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Winspear is the creator of the New York Times and National Bestselling series featuring psychologist and investigator, Maisie Dobbs. Her first novel - Maisie Dobbs - received numerous award nominations, including the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It was a New York Times Notable Book and a Publisher's Weekly Top Ten Pick. Since that time, Jacqueline's work has received many award nominations, and she has received the Agatha Award twice, the Macavity Award, the Alex Award, the Sue Feder Award for Best Historical Novel and the Bruce Alexander Award for Best Historical Novel. Her 'standalone' novel set in WW1, The Care and Management of Lies, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2015. Klappentext The "Maisie Dobbs" series of mysteries are reissued with new jacket artwork. The "Guardian" suggest that 'feisty, working class heroine Maisie is a deliberate throwback to the sleuthettes of old-fashioned crime writing.' Zusammenfassung Maisie Dobbs returns with her most gripping case yet
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'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
