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A review by edh
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
4.0
Covent Garden's costermongers have come to Maisie Dobbs with the news of a suspicious death - beloved Eddit Pettit, a mentally impaired man whose talent with horses and picture-perfect memory made him a valued part of the community, has died in an apparent accident. But the costermongers feel that there was something more at play, and they offer a collection to Maisie to solve the case. Having known Eddie as a child, Maisie has a personal connection to this case, and is surprised when the investigation takes turns towards the other important people in her life. Her dear friend Priscilla Partridge's husband seems to be part of this tangled web, as do other writers and publishers - and in the volatile spring of 1933, motives are not always what they seem to be.
Winspear has plumbed much of the depths of WWI for her readers, and this book will not disappoint. Maisie and her crew are being brought to the brink of WWII in subtle and revealing ways that give the reader a better idea of the politics surrounding Hitler's rise to power, and the political jockeying that occurred in context. Where textbooks paint this struggle in broad strokes of black and white, Maisie quietly lifts the curtains on all the shades of gray that her contemporaries encountered as they strategically sought to prevent the horrors that they experienced only fifteen years or so earlier. The series is picking up steam and urgency again, and is enhanced by the subplot of Maisie's love life taking another turn for the worse - with her upbringing and background overshadowing the liaison with the son of her former employer. While WWII is a foregone conclusion for readers, Maisie's personal life is much less assured, and will keep people reading avidly for volumes to come.
Winspear has plumbed much of the depths of WWI for her readers, and this book will not disappoint. Maisie and her crew are being brought to the brink of WWII in subtle and revealing ways that give the reader a better idea of the politics surrounding Hitler's rise to power, and the political jockeying that occurred in context. Where textbooks paint this struggle in broad strokes of black and white, Maisie quietly lifts the curtains on all the shades of gray that her contemporaries encountered as they strategically sought to prevent the horrors that they experienced only fifteen years or so earlier. The series is picking up steam and urgency again, and is enhanced by the subplot of Maisie's love life taking another turn for the worse - with her upbringing and background overshadowing the liaison with the son of her former employer. While WWII is a foregone conclusion for readers, Maisie's personal life is much less assured, and will keep people reading avidly for volumes to come.