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~ Winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel - 2003, ALA Alex Award - 2004, and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel - 2004
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator in post–World War I London, returns to London to work with her mentor, the accomplished Detective Dr. Maurice Blanche, after serving as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during the war. When Blanche decides to suddenly retire Maisie takes over his private investigation business. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget . . .
The first book in Jacqueline Winspear's delightful Maisie Dobbs series features a title character who is "a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." -- NPR