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Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)

by Jacqueline Winspear

ISBN13: 9780312426217
ISBN10: 0312426216
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A new Maisie Dobbs novel from award-winning author Jacqueline Winspear

In the third novel of this unique and masterly crime series, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton, KC, to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but also to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. Determined to prove Ralph Lawton either dead or alive, Maisie is plunged into a case that tests her spiritual strength, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission will bring her to France and reunite her with her old friend Priscilla Evernden, who lost three brothers in the war, one of whom has an intriguing connection to the case.

Set against a finely drawn portrait of life between the World Wars, Pardonable Lies is "a thrilling mystery that will enthrall fans of Jacqueline Winspear's heroine and likely win her new ones" (Detroit Free Press).

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In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful World War I memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.

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Jacqueline Winspear is the author of two previous Maisie Dobbs novels, Maisie Dobbs and Birds of a Feather, which won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. A New York Times Notable Book, Maisie Dobbs was nominated for a record eight awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, and won both the Agatha and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel, as well as the Alex Award for an adult novel suitable for young adults. Born in England, Winspear now lives in California.

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: Debra Hamel/book-blog.com, November 19, 2006 (view all comments by Debra Hamel/book-blog.com)
Pardonable Lies is the third installment in Jacqueline Winspear's series of historical mysteries. This outing finds Maisie juggling three cases, two of them related: both an old friend and a prominent barrister charge Maisie with investigating the fate of their loved ones, a brother and son respectively, who were listed among the dead of the Great War. What happened to the men in fact proves to be more interesting than anything that was reported to their families. The cases bring Maisie back to France, which in 1930 hardly resembles the shell-shocked landscape she knew as a nurse in 1914. Winspear's books are cozies: there is no wallowing in the gory specifics of blood and guts. But Pardonable Lies is not a light read. The aftershocks of a war that claimed so many lives and ripped Europe apart are felt everywhere and provide the series with a poignant backdrop.
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ISBN:: 9780312426217
Author:: Winspear, Jacqueline
Publisher:: Picador USA
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Subject:: Mystery & Detective - Historical
Subject:: World War, 1914-1918
Subject:: Air pilots, Military
Subject:: Historical fiction
Subject:: Mystery fiction
Subject:: Mystery-A to Z
Edition Description:: Paperback
Series:: Maisie Dobbs Mysteries
Series Volume:: No. 3
Publication Date:: 20060731
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 384
Dimensions:: 8.26 x 5.63 x 0.7 in

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