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A New York Times Bestseller
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and ultimately Maisie must draw on her finely-honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.
Reviews
"Winspear vividly evokes England
between the wars, when the old order crumbles and new horizons
beckoned working women like her appealing heroine. ...this jaunt
back to a bygone era is as satisfying as a spin in Maisie’s MG."
--Publisher's Weekly
"A painfully evocative tale of
England’s struggles with class differences and poverty between the
wars, and a clever mystery."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Maisie Dobbs is a revelation."
--Alexander McCall Smith, Author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
"Those unfamiliar with the Maisie Dobbs series are best advised to start here and work their way backward . . . An Incomplete Revenge shows Maisie at the top of her detecting form."
--Newsday
"A smart, pragmatic private investigator and psychologist with extraordinary empathic sensitivity . . . Every page of this novel is dense with affectionately rendered period detail. Winspear deftly intertwines multiple story lines. The tale becomes increasingly gripping as the novel progresses toward a truly moving ending."
--The Boston Globe
"Winspear’s lively and graceful prose, strong sense of time and place, and her ability to create believable and sympathetic characters make the book a joy to read."
--The Denver Post
"A pleasure . . . This nuanced series explores England in the aftermath of World War I, when millions of women who lost their husbands, lovers, and sons were left to make their own ways. Maisie is one of that group, and her way is an appealing one."
--The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
"A compelling and intriguing puzzle . . . inspear infuses this moving novel with wisdom, restrained emotion and, as is her custom, issues of morality."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Intriguing . . . Fascinating . . . Skillfully drawn."
--The Washington Times
"One of the more robust entries in the historical mystery category."
--The Seattle Times
"Often eloquent and deeply human."
--The Providence Journal
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