Jacqueline Winspear's Reviews
Reviews of Jacqueline’s Work
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Mar.22.2009
Published by The Wall Street Journal
Maisie Dobbs, the "psychologist and investigator" in Jacqueline Winspear's popular mystery series set in England in the first decades of the 20th century, is a person ahead of her...
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Nov.15.2008
Published by Kirkus Reviews
Psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs (An Incomplete Revenge, 2008, etc.) returns for the sixth time in this bleak, haunting mystery.
Her almost preternatural...
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Published by People Magazine
Private investigator Maisie Dobbs's London is "a desperate sort of place"--gripped by Depression hardships, haunted by war and threatened the day after Christmas by an anonymous...
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Mar.08.2009
Published by San Jose Mercury News
Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, plies her trade in England in the years after World War I. Everyone has been marked by the conflict, from villages who lost most of...
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Feb.21.2009
Published by Richmond Tines Dispatch
Athreat of mass terror, a government complicit in the danger, the aftermath of war, financial turmoil.
That may sound like a contemporary story, but it's the plot of Among the Mad...
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Published by The Tampa Tribune
When Jacqueline Winspear introduced us to Maisie Dobbs, she immediately established herself as an author who bears watching. She won several prestigious literary awards for that...
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Feb.28.2009
Published by The Globe and Mail
AMONG THE MAD
By Jacqueline Winspear, Henry Holt, 320 pages, $28
London at the beginning of the Great Depression is a time for true madness, and Maisie Dobbs is facing all of it....
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Published by jacquelinewinspear.com
"A painfully evocative tale of England's struggles with classs differences and poverty between the wars, and a clever mystery". --Kirkus Reviews
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Jun.01.2007
Published by Bookreporter.com
One of the most rewarding aspects of reading Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series is the gradual fleshing out of this fascinating main character. … Messenger of Truth will...
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Jul.06.2003
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
There isn’t a lot of room for originality in the sleuthing genre, but Jacqueline Winspear has come up with something surprisingly fresh in her first novel, Maisie Dobbs.
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Jun.13.2004
Published by The New York Times
First met in 2003 in Maisie Dobbs, a startlingly original debut work that won a nomination for an Edgar Award for best novel from the Mystery Writers of America, this unorthodox...
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About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. Following higher education at the University of London’s Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in both general and academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing...
Causes Jacqueline Winspear Supports
Marin Humane Society