If you didn’t get a chance to pick up a few freebies this weekend, you might still be able to get some of them. Check out She Was At Risk and others.
Or maybe you would be interested in one of the books that I gathered together in my International Women’s Day blog. I’ve got a good collection of books about women from other cultures and countries.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I just finished Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. I’ve read a number of books in the Maisie Dobbs series, and they are quite interesting. The audiobook I listened to (narrated by the author) had an interview with Winspear at the end of it and it was quite interesting to listen to her speak about the way that the Maisie Dobbs character and series came about.
Maisie Dobbs is a strong female lead, a psychologist and private investigator in post-WWI London. You learn in the first couple of books how she got her start as a private investigator, but there is enough backstory in this volume that you can read it alone.
“Yes. I promised to find someone who is dead.” He turned to face Maisie directly for the first time. “I am duty bound to search for him…”
Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies
In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot’s death.
A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war—one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton.
