MAISIE DOBBS

MAISIE DOBBS by Jacqueline Winspear

Reading Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs is like eating comfort food. It just feels good and satisfying to the soul. With 17 books in the series set in the early 1900s to WWII, Maisie begins in very humble surroundings and through hard work, intelligence, and some special people in her life emerges to be a sought-after private investigator. War is often the backdrop, and Maisie makes her own contributions to the war effort which often puts her in the path of a mystery to solve. This series has stayed remarkably clean! Language is very sparse, if any. There is one point you know she is sleeping with someone, but there are no details. Murders are described, but they are not gory. Winspear is a master at sharing circumstances surrounding Maisie and the cases she is working on that take you deeper than the average mystery. The language is descriptive and keeps you in the middle of everything. If you like mysteries and haven't experienced Maisie Dobbs, give her a try!