Maisie Dobbs

A favorite mystery series of Hillary Clinton (as mentioned in What Happened , The New York Times Book Review , and New York Magazine ) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel Macavity Award Winner for Best First Novel Alex Award Winner Fiercely independent Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon to be tested. For her first case forces her to uncover secrets long buried, and to confront ghosts from her own past . . . 'In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift' Alexander McCall Smith

A favorite mystery series of Hillary Clinton (as mentioned in What Happened , The New York Times Book Review , and New York Magazine ) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel Macavity Award Winner for Best First Novel Alex Award Winner Fiercely independent Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon to be tested. For her first case forces her to uncover secrets long buried, and to confront ghosts from her own past . . . 'In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift' Alexander McCall Smith

EN NEW YORK TIMES -BESTSELLERSERIE Maisie Dobbs er første bind i Jacqueline Winspears populære historiske spændingsserie om den rådsnare privatdetektiv Maisie Dobbs i mellemkrigstidens London. LONDON, 1929. Fra en beskeden start som tjenestepige har Maisie Dobbs trådt uventede stier. Efter studier på Cambridge og arbejde som feltsygeplejerske under Første Verdenskrig, etablerer hun sig i det sidste år af de brølende tyvere som privat efterforsker i den britiske hovedstad. En mand opsøger hende, fordi han mistænker sin kone for at være ham utro, men Maisies første sag viser sig at være langt mere kompliceret end som så. Sagen trækker spor til de traumer, krigens soldater blev udsat for i de skånselsløse skyttegrave, og samtidig tvinger den Maisie til at se sine egne spøgelser i øjnene.