Maisie Dobbs

I finally read a Maisie Dobbs book! This is book four for me in the Summer Mystery Challenge. Having seen the Nancy Drew movie I was in the mood for a book that reminded me of Nancy Drew. Since I began this challenge I am standing at the mystery section at the libray taking lots of time to peruse the books instead of grabbing an author I know or because I like the cover. Which is how I found Maisie - investigating the library shelves.

To me, Maisie is like a grown up Nancy Drew. There is an innocence from that time, eventhough she has been thru some tough things: losing her mother, would-be husband and working as a nurse during the war. I will definately be checking out the next few books in the series. There was a lot of back story in the first book so I expect the next books to be even better.

From the website:

This is where you will find out more about Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, who began her working life as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton. Fearing dismissal, Maisie is shocked when she discovers that her thirst for education is to be supported by Lady Rowan and a family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche. But The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s plans, and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service overseas.

Years later, in 1929, having apprenticed to the renowned Maurice Blanche, a man revered for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie sets up her own 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