Last Maisie
The Comfort of Ghosts

The final novel in the Maisie Dobbs Series

A New York Times and National Bestseller

Edgar® Winner (Sue Grafton Memorial Award for Best Novel)

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series.

“Winspear delivers a most elegant and satisfying resolution... It’s a privilege to experience life with Winspear’s determined and maximally resilient woman protagonist.”
—Booklist, Starred Review

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Announcements

Jacqueline received the Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award in the spring of 2026

The Comfort of Ghosts is an Edgar® Winner (Sue Grafton Memorial Award for Best Novel)

The Comfort of Ghosts is available in paperback in the UK & US

Maisie Dobbs Collector’s Edition was released from Soho Press

The final Maisie Dobbs book, The Comfort of Ghosts, was released in 2024 from Soho Press

Praise for Jacqueline’s books

Winspear, whose work combines realistic historical plots with lovely, unobtrusive prose, has won numerous awards, and rightly so.
Richmond-Times Dispatch
Fiction at once fresh and timeless, intimate and sweeping…
“O” Magazine
What Winspear does, brilliantly and poignantly…
is to bring home the enormity of the war by making it personal…
—NPR.org
[Winspear’s] writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.
—Bestselling memoirist Anne Lamott

What Would Maisie Do?—a collection of readers’ favorite passages from the Maisie Dobbs’ series, together with the story behind each passage, sections on locations featured in the books, and pages for journaling.