Maisie Dobbs The Mapping of Love and Death, Book 7, (Paperback)

from tjsjohanna

One thing I find intriguing about Ms. Winspear's mysteries is how the crimes often look so unusual - and yet the motives so often boil down to basic greed. I enjoyed getting to know a little more about how important map makers were in a time when there were no satellite pictures to give armies a ...

from pennykaplan

18 years after the fact Maisie must unravel the cause of death of an American cartographer serving with British forces in WWI. Maisie, always a sympathetic character, has matured personally and as a private detective with good intuition. Lovely series!

from michigantrumpet

Maisie Dobbs is retained by a wealthy America couple to find out what happened to their son, Michael, who volunteered as a cartographer for the British in the Great War, and whose body has just been found in a bombed out trench with his fellow soldiers. Was his death due to the bomb, or were ther...

from cathyskye

First Line: Michael Clifton stood on a hill burnished gold in the summer sun and, hands on hips, closed his eyes. Try as I might not to play favorites, there are still mystery series that are near and dear to my heart-- ones that I will always recommend first whenever I'm asked "What's good?" Jac...

from Glenajo

Since the end of the Great War, Maisie Dobbs, after studying psychology, has been investigating and performing inquiries for a fee. In this novel, she is hired by the parents of an American cartographer who had died in England, the country of his family's birth, while serving during the war. Disc...