Jacqueline Winspear

El segundo caso de Maisie Dobbs, una detective con intuición.Nunca has conocido a nadie como ella.Una sólida novela de misterio que atrapa desde la primera página y una historia conmovedora que revela los lados mas oscuros de la Gran Guerra.Londres, 1930. Desde que abrio una agencia de investigacion privada en Londres, ha habido muchos cambios en la vida de Maisie Dobbs: tiene la oficina en Fitzroy Square, Billy Beale se ha convertido en su asistente y conduce un coche rojo.Ha demostrado su valia como investigadora, e incluso se ha ganado el respeto del inspector Stratton de Scotland Yard, todo un logro para una mujer que paso de sirvienta a detective.En la primavera de 1930, Maisie recibe un encargo de Joseph Waite, un hombre rico hecho a si mismo, para que encuentre a su hija, Charlotte, una heredera fugitiva. Lo que parece un caso sencillo, se vuelve mas complejo cuando hallan el cuerpo sin vida de una amiga de Charlotte fallecida en extrañas circunstancias. Maisie tendra que volver a hacer uso de su intuicion para descubrir los entresijos de este caso.¿POR QUE LEER A TRES PLUMAS BLANCAS?El segundo caso de Maisie Dobbs, una detective resolutiva, audaz y con mucha intuicion.Un misterio solido y una historia conmovedora que revela el lado mas oscuro de la Gran Guerra.Una autora multipremiada con una protagonista tan real que no querras dejar de seguirle la pista.Tres plumas blancas es la segunda entrega de la autora Jacqueline Winspear con la detective Maisie Dobbs, personaje estrella de su saga de novela negra con un tinte simpatico y amable al mejor estilo cozy crime. InfobaeTres plumas blancas es una novela muy dinamica, con varios escenarios y unos personajes de lo mas especiales. Anika entre libros

Maisie Dobbs. Una detective con intuición. No le pierdas la pista, nunca has conocido a nadie como ella.La serie de gran éxito en Europa y Estados Unidos que reafirma a Jacqueline Winspear como una gran autora de misterio psicologico.Londres, 1929. Maisie Dobbs abre una oficina como flamante investigadora privada en el centro de Londres y se convierte en una de las primeras mujeres detective de la epoca. Su primer caso, la investigacion de la supuesta infidelidad de la esposa de un hombre de la alta sociedad, la conduce a un lugar conocido como El Retiro, un refugio de convalecientes de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained - by Theas passionate embrace of womens suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Theas brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezias responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy.

Britain is at war. Returned from a dangerous mission onto enemy soil and having encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself along the way, Maisie Dobbs is fully aware of the gravity of the current situation and how her world is on the cusp of great change. One of those changes can be seen in the floods of refugees that are arriving in Britain, desperate for sanctuary from the approaching storm of war. When Maisie stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people, she is drawn into an investigation that requires all her insight and strength.

Winspear pulls it off brilliantlyDAILY MAILOctober 1942. Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she has the terrifying experience of coming under fire from the ground. Returning to the area on foot to find out who was trying to take her down, she discovers an African American soldier bound and gagged in an old barn. When another ferry pilot crashes and dies in the same part of Kent, Jo is convinced theres a connection between all three events and she wants desperately to help the soldier now in the custody of American military police.Jo takes her suspicions to Maisie Dobbs and as the psychologist-investigator delves into the case, she discovers that the targeting of ferry pilots and the plight of the soldier are bound up with the visit to Britain by the First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. Maisie must work fast to uncover the link, to save the presidents wife and a soldier caught in the crosshairs of those who would see them both dead.Fans and newcomers to the series will root for DobbsLOS ANGELES TIMESIn A Sunlit Weapon, Maisies pluck, intelligence and moral fortitude are on full displayWASHINGTON POST

The second Maisie Dobbs mystery Jacqueline Winspear s marvelous debut, "Maisie Dobbs," won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature s favorite sleuths. "Birds of a Feather," its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London between the wars. It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress s old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman s mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War."

London, 1933. Two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered, her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. But Maisies investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case and at the same time her lover, James Compton, gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore...

When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. Accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice-Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitlers Munich in 1938-he asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxons death. As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the citizens of London, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect the young evacuee she has grown to love. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend-and the possibility that she might be falling in love again.

London, October 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Dismissed by the police when reporting the crime, Freddie turns to private investigator Maisie Dobbs for help. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must exercise caution given her work with a secret government department spearheading covert operations against the Nazis. When she stumbles upon the killer in a place she least expects, Maisie soon realises shes been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill - reasons that go back to another war.

Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as the Bore War - nothing much seems to have happened yet - Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a "hush-hush" government contract. As Maisies inquiry reveals a possible link to the London underworld, so the country is bracing for a possible enemy invasion amid news of the British expeditionary force stranded along the French coast. And another mother is worried about a missing son - but this time the boy in question is one beloved by Maisie.

Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as the Bore War - nothing much seems to have happened yet - Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a "hush-hush" government contract. As Maisie's inquiry reveals a possible link to the London underworld, so the country is bracing for a possible enemy invasion amid news of the British expeditionary force stranded along the French coast. And another mother is worried about a missing son - but this time the boy in question is one beloved by Maisie.

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear s New York Times bestselling series that seems to get better with each entry (Wall Street Journal).It s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square a place of many memories she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich.The British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie s travel plans. Her nemesis the man she holds responsible for her husband s death has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help.Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, Maisie encounters unexpected dangers and finds herself questioning whether it s time to return to the work she loved. But the Secret Service may have other ideas. . . .

Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britains declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs'' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the last war," a new kind of refugee an evacuee from London appears in Maisie''s life. The little girl billeted at Maisies home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the Operation Pied Piper evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna.As Maisies search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own

Britain is at war. Returned from a dangerous mission onto enemy soil and having encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself along the way, Maisie Dobbs is fully aware of the gravity of the current situation and how her world is on the cusp of great change. One of those changes can be seen in the floods of refugees that are arriving in Britain, desperate for sanctuary from the approaching storm of war. When Maisie stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people, she is drawn into an investigation that requires all her insight and strength.

The extraordinary Maisie Dobbs returns in her second case

Much-loved Maisie Dobbs returns to investigate her third case, a thrilling story of family tensions and mysterious deaths in World War I

A Zeppelin raid in a sleepy Kent village . . . An innocent family killed . . . Unsolved crimes hang over Heronsdene and Maisie Dobbs is hired to uncover the truth. But outsiders are not welcome and the locals will go to extreme lengths to prevent their long-buried secret from coming to light.

Maisie Dobbs returns in the bestselling mystery series

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place...