A review by dawnmdavison
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

2.0

Not the right book for me. It wasn't enough of a misfit that I stopped reading it, but it was close. The mystery in this book takes a backseat to the backstory of Maisie--told in segments that come to dominate the book and made me forget she was working on a case at all. The structure was dissatisfying, and I wish instead I had learned bits and pieces about Maisie over the first few books in the series. As a detective/mystery novel, it falls into that category where the reader is not privileged to all the information the detective has and so cannot actually solve the mystery before or with the detective. That said, the information withheld was quite lackluster and only provided some detail to the why. The who was always apparent and, in the end, the why was quite shallow.
I was excited at the prospect of another historical mystery series with a female lead, but I won't be reading any more in this series.