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Maisie Dobbs

By Jacqueline Winspear , #1 of Maisie Dobbs series

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From [email protected]'s 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Unknown Author Why [email protected] loves this book

Maudie Dobbs is everything I’d ever want to be in life given the choice.

Maisie Dobbs

By Jacqueline Winspear ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked Maisie Dobbs as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A favorite mystery series of Hillary Clinton (as mentioned in What Happened, The New York Times Book Review, and New York Magazine)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel
Macavity Award Winner for Best First Novel
Alex Award Winner

Fiercely independent Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways.

Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in…

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Indicting the 45th President by Gregg Barak,

Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. It expands on the themes of political deviance, deception, dishonesty, lawlessness and lying.

In his second book, Gregg Barak considers the campaigns and policies, the corruption, the…

The Crossing Places

By Elly Griffiths , #1 of Ruth Galloway series

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Elisabeth Wathen Author Of Glorious Debris

From my list on loving character development as much as getting a new mystery every time.

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Why am I passionate about this?

Mysteries are fun to write, but it’s never just the central mystery that interests me. I want the relationships, the people, sometimes even the place to fill my books with their own smaller puzzles and hidden truths. I have long believed that all novels are, in fact, mysteries: if you’re not wondering what will happen next, or where the truth lies, why bother? The suspense of wondering what a character will do next, or what past experience has led to an aspect of their personality, is at least as important as who committed the murder. I hope that my readers will feel the same.

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Elisabeth Wathen Why Elisabeth loves this book

I love this main character.

Ruth Galloway is independent, smart, and self-sufficient, and there’s a lot about her life that sounds ideal to me. She lives in a coastal landscape with her cat? Sign me up!

She’s also flawed and does not conform to traditional beauty standards—the perfect heroine for intelligent, insightful investigation of a clever mystery, and a developing love story. And that love story isn’t sappy and romantic. It’s plagued with troubles: fear of vulnerability, social roadblocks, and scars from past lovers.

Plenty to work through over the next fifteen books! Add in the mysterious Cathbad, scientist and druid, and the atmospheric wealth of the coastal wetlands and their ancient history, and this is a book, and a series, I never got tired of reading.

The Crossing Places

By Elly Griffiths ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked The Crossing Places as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, one of the most popular crime series in Britain, with this beautiful special edition.

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Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?

DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual…

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