Jacqueline Winspear

Las pérdidas sufridas en tiempos de guerra ayudan a comprender el dolor del que sí regresaMaisie Dobbs, la psicóloga y detective con intuición que da voz a los silenciosos, presencia a los invisibles y nombre a los olvidados.Nochebuena de 1931. Maisie Dobbs es testigo del suicidio de un hombre en una concurrida calle de Londres. Al dia siguiente, el primer ministro recibe una carta en la que se amenaza con un atentado a una escala inimaginable, y en la que menciona a Maisie.Tras ser interrogada por el detective jefe Robert Mac-Farlane, de Scotland Yard, es nombrada asesora especial en este complicado caso. Mientras tanto, Billy Beale se enfrenta de nuevo a la tragedia cuando su mujer, que no se ha recuperado de la muerte de su hija pequeña, se desliza cada vez mas hacia el abismo de la melancolia.Nunca has conocido a nadie como ella ¿POR QUE LEER ENTRE LOS OLVIDADOS?Entre los olvidados ha sido nominada al Premio Macavity por el Mejor Misterio Historico.El sexto caso de la serie de misterio con ambientacion historica mas esperada por los lectores.Una poderosa trama con las secuelas de aquellos que sobrevivieron a la Gran Guerra.

En la nueva entrega de esta emocionante serie, Maisie Dobbs investiga la misteriosa muerte de un controvertido artista.Londres, 1931. El polémico artista Nick Bassington-Hope fallece de repente la noche antes de la inauguracion de una exposicion de su obra en una famosa galeria de Mayfair. La policia dictamina que se trata de un accidente, pero la hermana gemela de Nick, Georgina, una corresponsal de guerra, no esta convencida. Cuando las autoridades se niegan a considerar su teoria de que Nick fue victima de un asesinato, ella busca la ayuda de su compañera de estudios del Girton College, Maisie Dobbs.En una investigacion que la lleva a las desoladas playas de Dungeness, en Kent, y al controvertido mundo del arte, Maisie descubre una vez mas el legado de la Gran Guerra en una sociedad que lucha por no perder el rumbo.En la nueva entrega de esta emocionante serie, Maisie Dobbs investiga la misteriosa muerte de un controvertido artista.Londres, 1931. El polémico artista Nick Bassington-Hope fallece de repente la noche antes de la inauguracion de una exposicion de su obra en una famosa galeria de Mayfair. La policia dictamina que se trata de un accidente, pero la hermana gemela de Nick, Georgina, una corresponsal de guerra, no esta convencida. Cuando las autoridades se niegan a considerar su teoria de que Nick fue victima de un asesinato, ella busca la ayuda de su compañera de estudios del Girton College, Maisie Dobbs.En una investigacion que la lleva a las desoladas playas de Dungeness, en Kent, y al controvertido mundo del arte, Maisie descubre una vez mas el legado de la Gran Guerra en una sociedad que lucha por no perder el rumbo.

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.

Maisie Dobbs returns in the bestselling mystery series

The extraordinary Maisie Dobbs returns in her second case

Maisie Dobbs returns with her most gripping case yet

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.

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

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. . . .

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."

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

Early 1938. Maisie Dobbs is back in England. She is intercepted on a walk by two Secret Service men. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only into the hands of his family. The Secret Service want Maisie - who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter - to retrieve the man from the outskirts of Munich.

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...

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

London 1931. When controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope is found dead, the police believe it is an open and shut case and his death from a fall is recorded as accidental. But his sister is not convinced, so she turns to Maisie Dobbs for help, drawn by the investigators growing reputation for her unique methods of solving crimes. Moving from the desolate beaches of the English coast to the dark underbelly of post-war London, and full of intriguing characters, Maisies new investigation entertains and enthrals at every turn.