set fair for a very bright future as a crime novelist - Praise for MAISIE DOBBS, Daily Mail 'A wry and immensely readable beginning to what promises to be a vivid new addition to crime fiction' - Praise for MAISIE DOBBS, Mail on Sunday 'Full of evocative, atmospheric locations and vividly believable historical detail.
riveting' - Publisher's Weekly 'A fine new sleuth for the twenty-first century' - Elizabeth George 'Winspear writes very well. 'Maisie Dobbs continues to beguile in this chilling, suspenseful sequel. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Birds of a Feather is her second novel featuring Maisie Dobbs. She now lives in California and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom. Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in England and later worked in publishing and as a marketing communications consultant in the U.K. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress’s old friends. Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate’s daughter who has fled from home.
Her progression from domestic staff to college student to wartime nurse to private investigator is both believable and compelling."- San Francisco Chronicle
Winspear does a fine job with the ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ aspects of the story, depicting the class tensions that inevitably arise as Dobbs climbs to a new station in life. Winspear takes her through her ordeal with great compassion."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review Prepare to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment. Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief."-Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" on NPR If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain’s classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series ‘Upstairs, Downstairs,’ you’d approximate the peculiar range of topics and tones within this novel. " Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation.
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