Jacqueline Winspear (born 30 April 1955) is a mystery writer, author of the ''

Maisie Dobbs ''Maisie Dobbs'' is a 2003 mystery novel by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator building her business in the aftermath of the First World War. Generally ...

'' series of books exploring the aftermath of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series.

Personal life and career

Winspear was born on 30 April 1955, and raised in Cranbrook, in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. She was educated at the

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's Institute of Education and then worked in academic publishing, higher education and in marketing communications. She emigrated to the United States in 1990. Winspear stated that her childhood awareness of her grandfather's suffering in World War I led to an interest in that period.

Maisie Dobbs series

Maisie Dobbs is a private investigator who untangles painful and shameful secrets stemming from war experiences. A gifted working class girl in class-conscious England, she receives an unusual education thanks to the patronage of her employer, who had taken her on as a housemaid. She interrupts her education to work as a nurse in the Great War, falls in love and suffers her own losses. After the war, she finishes her university education, then works under the tutelage of her mentor. When he retires. she sets up as an investigator in her own office. Dobbs places emphasis on achieving healing for her clients and insists they comply with her ethical approach. She grows older throughout the series of novels, and her cases reflect the times, from the Great War to the Second World War.

Books

Maisie Dobbs series

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'' SOHO : 2003. , # ''Birds of a Feather'' (2004) # ''Pardonable Lies'' (2005) # ''Messenger of Truth'' (2006) # ''An Incomplete Revenge'' (2008) # ''Among the Mad'' (2009) # ''The Mapping of Love and Death'' (2010) # ''A Lesson in Secrets'' (2011) # ''Elegy for Eddie'' (2012) # ''Leaving Everything Most Loved'' (2013) # ''A Dangerous Place'' (2015) # ''Journey to Munich'' (2016) # ''In This Grave Hour'' (2017) # ''To Die but Once'' (2018) # ''The American Agent'' Harper Collins, 2019. , #''The Consequences of Fear'' (2021) #''A Sunlit Weapon'' (2022)

Standalone

*''The Care and Management of Lies'' New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. , (Ms. Winspear also narrates the Audible audio version of her childhood memoir)

Memoir

* ''This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing'' (2020)

References

External links

Jacqueline Winspear
author's website {{DEFAULTSORT:Winspear, Jacqueline English emigrants to the United States American mystery writers American women novelists Living people Macavity Award winners People from Cranbrook, Kent Women mystery writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists Alumni of the University of London 1955 births