Pardonable Lies is as stylish as a whodunit gets." - BookPage "I couldn't put the book down and rushed out right away to get the other two. Maisie Dobbs takes her place in the upper echelon of literary female detectives, right next to Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta. James's Cordelia Gray, Maisie Dobbs is spot-on." - The Boston Globe "A prim 1930s British gumshoe is one of the freshest, most modern heroines in recent memory.
The mood and atmosphere of the period ring with authenticity, and the class tension that underlies many of Maisie's dealings lends the narrative extra sparkle." - San Francisco Chronicle "For readers yearning for the calm and insightful intelligence of a main character like P. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series "Maisie is a sleuth to treasure." - The New York Times Book Review "Maisie's most assured outing to date. And what a revelation it is!" - Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. Such people are always there amongst us, waiting for somebody like Ms. Maisie Dobbs has not been created-she has been discovered. "In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift. Following on the heels of Winspear's triumphant Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies is another compelling installment in the chronicles of Maisie Dobbs, "a heroine to cherish" (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review). The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war-one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. 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 to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world.
A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death. About the Book 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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