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This week’s teaser comes from the opening of Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, the March featured cozy author. This is an historical mystery, set before, during and following WWI. I enjoyed it, but definitely not what I expected. There were a couple of chapters that were so heart-wrenching, I was glad not to be reading them at work or on the bus. Warning: You may need a tissue or two.
Even if she hadn’t been the last person to walk through the turnstile at Warren Station, Jack Barker would have noticed the tall, slender woman in the navy blue, thigh-length jacket with a matching pleated skirt short enough to reveal a well-turned ankle. She had what his old mother would have called “bearing.” A way of walking, with her shoulders back and head held high, as she pulled on her black gloves while managing to hold on to a somewhat battered black document case.
(Opening, Chapter One)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Series: Maisie Dobbs #1
The daughter of a struggling greengrocer, Maisie Dobbs was only thirteen when she was sent to work as a maid for wealthy London aristocrats. But being bright and thoughtful beyond her years, Maisie studies her way to Cambridge, then serves as a nurse on the Front during the Great War. Now, it’s the spring of 1929, nearly ten years after the Armistice and Maisie has just opened up her own detective agency. Her first assignment, a seemingly open-and-shut infidelity case, will reveal a much deeper, darker mystery, forcing Maisie to revisit the horrors of the war and the ghost she left behind. Refreshing, absorbing, and beautifully rendered, Maisie Dobbs marks the beginning of an incredible new series.
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