Even a great author can be stymied by the Great War. As she has proven in her Maisie Dobbs mysteries, Jacqueline Winspear is one of our best. In these eloquent, melancholy books set in England ...

Readers who might have considered the mystery genre a guilty pleasure or a gruesome thrill could expect more from Winspear’s novel. Indeed, the book won several literary honors: the Agatha Award ...

And then there’s the hopeful — and hopefully prescient — title of the book: “This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing.” It was hard to resist. It’s on Page 24 that Winspear tells us ...

Marin’s Jacqueline Winspear, author of the “Maisie Dobbs” mystery series, delivers a movingly epic tale set during World War I. Kezia and Thea are best friends, linked in diverse ways ...

Some decades ago, Jacqueline Winspear came across a manual, The Woman’s Book, given to a bride on her marriage in July 1914. Homely and practical, the book also contained social and moral maxims ...