Fans of Maisie Dobbs: Come to SCENE OF THE CRIME for a Discussion with Bestselling Author Jacqueline Winspear

[J. Sydney Jones]

Maisie Dobbs to the Rescue: Jacqueline Winspear’s England

April 20, 2010 by Scene of the Crime | Edit

Jacqueline Winspear, author of the popular Maisie Dobbs series set in interwar England, is our latest guest on Scene of the Crime. Winspear hit the ground running with
this series: her first installment, the 2003 Maisie Dobbs,
became a bestseller, won accolades from reviewers, and earned Winspear
the prestigious Agatha Award for Best First novel, the Macavity Award
for Best First Novel; and the Alex Award.

Since then, Winspear has sent her indefatigable psychologist/investigator into harm’s way in six further adventures, which have won the author a large following and the Agatha Award for
Best Novel for Birds of a Feather, and Sue Feder/Macavity Award
for Best Historical Mystery for Pardonable Lies. Both An
Incomplete Revenge, from 2008, and Among the Mad, from
2009, were New York Times bestsellers. Her latest, The
Mapping of Love and Death, opens in California in 1914, and, like
the others in the series, has connections to the Great War. Booklist
declared this novel “a must read for series fans, especially because
the ending hints that big changes are on the way for Maisie.”

Jackie, it is a real pleasure to have you here with us on Scene
of the Crime.