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Leaving Everything Most Loved
by Jacqueline Winspear
Private investigator Maisie Dobbs is called on to reopen a cold case--a murder of an Indian woman in a working class London neighborhood. The more Maisie learns about the victim, the more she begins to feel it was Usha Pramal's peculiarly attractive personality that may have led to her death. Could someone have loved her so much, they began to hate her? Her pursuit of clues leads her to many intriguing people, including a remarkable Indian scholar, a cleric of a self-invented church, the hosts of a Christian hostel offering shelter to Indian women stranded by employers or circumstances in a foreign country. All seem to be concealing bits of Usha's story.
Meanwhile, Maisie wrestles with her own questions. Should she intercede again in the life of her assistant, Billy, who is suffering the aftereffects of severe injuries from a previous case? Should she put a stop to her other assistant's apparent relationship with married Billy? And what of her own proposal of marriage? Her paramour, James, wants to marry and carry Maisie off to Canada. Can Maisie wed and stay true to herself? Does she even know who she wants to be?
As the intrepid detective zeroes in on the murderer, a second murder occurs, upending Maisie's case and sending her in a new direction--straight into danger.
Ms. Winspear's fine series, set in Britain in the years between WWI and WWII, is a evocative of the time, and reminds me of the best of Christie, Sayers and Allingham.
Meanwhile, Maisie wrestles with her own questions. Should she intercede again in the life of her assistant, Billy, who is suffering the aftereffects of severe injuries from a previous case? Should she put a stop to her other assistant's apparent relationship with married Billy? And what of her own proposal of marriage? Her paramour, James, wants to marry and carry Maisie off to Canada. Can Maisie wed and stay true to herself? Does she even know who she wants to be?
As the intrepid detective zeroes in on the murderer, a second murder occurs, upending Maisie's case and sending her in a new direction--straight into danger.
Ms. Winspear's fine series, set in Britain in the years between WWI and WWII, is a evocative of the time, and reminds me of the best of Christie, Sayers and Allingham.