Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s The American Agent
Psychological detective Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
Psychological detective Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When a painting apprentice disappears and later the young son of her best friend, Maisie is on the cases, uncovering links to a criminal underworld and a terrible fraud.
Britain declares war on Germany and is mobilizing for the battles ahead. But when Maisie stumbles on the deaths of refugees, she suspects the enemy may be closer than they knew.
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent into Hitler’s Germany to retrieve valuable “property”.
A brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar that spring of 1937 leads Maisie Dobbs into a web of lies, deceit and danger.
Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
Maisie Dobbs is pulled into intelligence work for the Crown. As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, Maisie will confront new challenges and new enemies
Maisie Dobbs travels to Kent to investigate a series of fires, a family of Dutch bakers who were killed during WWI in a zeppelin attack and the theft of some silver.
Maisie Dobbs uncovers a dark legacy and to solve the mystery of the artist’s death, she must remain steady as the forces behind his death come out of the shadows to silence her.