The Mapping of Love and Death - (Maisie Dobbs) Large Print by Jacqueline Winspear (Paperback)

From the Back Cover

In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.

August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe. Michael--the youngest son of an expatriate Englishman--puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among those missing in action.

April 1932. London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is retained by Michael's parents, who have recently learned that their son's remains have been unearthed in France. They want Maisie to find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among Michael's belongings--a quest that takes Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love. Her inquiries, and the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his trench, unleash a web of intrigue and violence that threatens to engulf the soldier's family and even Maisie herself. Over the course of her investigation, Maisie must cope with the approaching loss of her mentor, Maurice Blanche, and her growing awareness that she is once again falling in love.

Following the critically acclaimed bestseller Among the Mad, The Mapping of Love and Death delivers the most gripping and satisfying chapter yet in the life of Maisie Dobbs.

Review Quotes

"Excellent. . . . As Dobbs unravels the dead soldier's past, her creator brings the story to a satisfying conclusion. But the real pleasure is Winspear's insights into human beings and history."

- USA Today
"England between the wars is a milieu custom-made for fertile storytelling, and an excellent example is The Mapping of Love and Death. . . . Here, author Jacqueline Winspear invents a task worthy of the capable Dobbs' skills."

- Seattle Times
"Compelling." - People (3 1/2 out of 4 stars)
"Winspear surpasses herself in this absorbing novel." - New York Times Book Review
"Maisie Dobbs, the brave, insightful and compassionate heroine of Jacqueline Winspear's mystery series, has a lock on the hearts of readers. . . . Winspear's new novel about a kind 'psychologist and investigator' in '30s Britain spends as much energy on Dobbs and her circle of friends as it does on the mystery she solves, but doesn't suffer for doing so." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Like all Winspear's work, The Mapping of Love and Death engages the mind and enriches the heart. A novel of profound humanity, with a heroine who lives up to that word in every way, it leaves the reader marveling at Winspear's flair for literate and absorbing fiction." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A sleuth to treasure." - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
"A detective series to savor." - Johanna McGeary, Time
"[Catches] the sorrow of a lost generation in the character of one exceptional woman." - Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
"What charms most is Dobbs herself: a woman 'not as adept in her personal life as she was in her professional domain, ' and all the more engaging for that." - Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
"Endearing. . . . As often in this winning series, the action builds to a somewhat sad if satisfying conclusion." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An engaging plot coupled with captivating character makes this the best Dobbs novel to date." - Library Journal
"In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift. Maisie Dobbs has not been created--she has been discovered. Such people are always there amongst us, waiting for somebody like Ms. Winspear to come along and reveal them. And what a revelation it is!" - Alexander McCall Smith
"When people ask me to recommend an author, one name consistently comes to mind: Jacqueline Winspear." - Deirdre Donahue, USA Today