Jacqueline Winspear

Not having read any Maisie Dobbs mysteries before, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was delighted to make the acquaintance of this 1930's psychologist and investigator.

Gentle, principled Maisie has a bulldog streak, determined to get to the root of things and redress wrongs. In this story, totally relevant today, it's the treatment of the war veterans that lie behind the crime and Maisie and her assistant have to work hard to solve the mystery.

In this story Maisey is set to investigate a disappearing daughter.  Daughters did not just disappear in the 1930s so what is the story and what is she going to find out?

Jacqueline is an amazing writer, how does she think up these brilliant stories and put them into this format of a early 20th century woman investigator.

Well all I can say is that Jacqueline knows her art and really has researched her subject well.  Love her  writing and the way it reads, free flowing and brilliant.  

 Again brilliantly read by Emilia fox.

This is the first of Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs, Private Investigator Stories. 

Emilia Fox reads this story and is brilliant at it with Maisie being a wonderful character who researches her case with real dilligence.  I love her methods and can not wait to find out who is going to be at fault and who is going to be proven innocent.  

I have really enjoyed this Maisie Dobbs Mystery, I will definitley listen or read some more when I get the chance.

Maisie has been asked to check out a property that her client is thinking of buying down in Kent which turns out to be a most intriguing case. Maisie is out about and is well aquainted with the owner of said property but as the owner of the property he is not liked in the village, but no one will say a word against him. He strikes me as a man who presumes he is above the law and that no one will stand upto him, but he meets his match in Maisie's clerk Billy.