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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
I love Maisie D but I think I lost the plot on this one. Maisie goes undercover at a college to investigate something nefarious for the crown and Scotland Yard, then someone gets murdered, and an employee back home gets arrested. Lots of threads including Nazi foreshadowing, a baby, and a boyfriend/fiance wanna-be who may or may not be lying -- not really sure since he is the weakest character in the book, and why the heck is she enamored with him anyway? Apparently they are merely sleeping together, which would have been uber scandalous for this time period, right? He's desperate to marry her, she does not seem to care a bit, and the romance seems awfully wedged in. Sigh. Not my favorite of the series.... I may just need to take a Maisie break.
In the latest volume of a mystery series that gets 1930s England very right, former WWI nurse-turned psychologist and private detective is now working for the government investigating the Mosley-Fascist infiltration of a Peace College at Cambridge. I fully expect a future case to be a country house murder amongst appeasers.
Recovering well from the last few, leaving behind the maudlin soap opera plots and subplots. In this one, she is sent by British intelligence to Cambridge to investigate a college for supposed communist sympathies. As happened in real life, the British government wasn't interested in the real threat, Nazism. Surrounding the murder are a number of different folks of interest, as expected.
At the same time, Billy's family moves forward, as does Maisie's own relationship with only a bit too much angst. Above average and a welcome return to almost the level of earlier books.
At the same time, Billy's family moves forward, as does Maisie's own relationship with only a bit too much angst. Above average and a welcome return to almost the level of earlier books.
The further I get into this series the more I enjoy it. The lead up to WWII is particularly interesting and I am continually amazed at the parallels between events and people in the books and the current day. Especially since at this point in the series these books were written well before the scary political events we've been experiencing the past decade.
The whodunit was a slight thing, and the solution seemed less than well prepared by the plot, but Maisie and her friends are worth catching up with--and the picture of England between the wars is completely engaging.