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Personal difficulties with cozy mystery type series so really a 2.5 but as it doesn't seem fair to give a 2 as it's probably a well-done cozy, I've bumped the rating up to 3.
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I am a huge fan of Maisie Dobbs. Not only are her stories entertaining. She also teaches some valuable lessons and forces the reader to think about their own motivations.
In this, Jacqueline Winspear's fourth entry to the Maisie Dobbs saga, Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist and World War I veteran.
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The ...more
In this, Jacqueline Winspear's fourth entry to the Maisie Dobbs saga, Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist and World War I veteran.
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The ...more
I'm trying to like this series but the details are killing me. In the first 2 books I figured the details of clothing were constantly mentioned because of Maisie trying to figure out what type of person she was dealing with but in this book, Georgina, who has hired Maisie, is detailing Maisie's clothes too. I like clothes but I'm not particularly interested in what everyone is wearing every single day. Plus in the beginning chapters the descriptions about Maisie elevate her to a level befitting
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Aug 21, 2019
Kris (My Novelesque Life)
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Jan 11, 2025
Sarah Brown
marked it as maybe-one-day
