Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher: Soho Press
Genre: Historical Mystery
Pages: 311
How
I Read It: Hard cover
borrowed from the library
My Rating: 3 Crowns
Synopsis: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has
been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the heiress's old friends
are found dead, Maisie must race to find out who would want to kill these
seemingly respectable young women before it's too late. As Maisie investigates,
she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.
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Synopsis taken from Goodreads
My
Review: I loved the first
Maisie Dobbs novel, so I was excited to get around to the second one. This
mystery was decent, but a little more predictable than the first one, and I
left it feeling a little disappointed. In fact, I felt so blase about this book
that it has taken me forever to write my review. It's not that it was bad, just
average and I don't feel like I had much noteworthy to say about it.
I liked the character
development outside of the main story a lot more than the actual mystery in
this one. Billy in particular had some growth I enjoyed, and the insight his
character gave into more of what a war survivor would go through was
interesting. Sometimes I get caught up in modern times and forget the advances
in medicine, and the knowledge we have now that has changed the way we treat
people. It makes me feel bad for veterans of these earlier wars, who became addicted
to a variety of things that were designed to treat their pain. And it also
makes me wonder what the effects of current treatments will be down the line.
I'm looking forward to
continuing with this series, and seeing what comes next for Maisie and her
friends. I enjoy her pluckiness and determination for figuring a mystery out.
She's one of those characters that would have been a strong woman in her time,
and that's always something I like to read about. I think fans of
historical fiction will enjoy this one, or people who are interested in
continuing the series.
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