The Comfort of Ghosts The Comfort of Ghosts

Publisher Description

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow!

The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series.

“An outstanding historical series.”—The New York Times

“Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.”—The Historical Novel Society

Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future.


London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group.

Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true.

The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a  fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2024
June 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
360
Pages
PUBLISHER
Soho Press
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

calianneC ,

So very sad…

Tell me it isn’t so! I’ve loved every page of every book in this series. Something I can’t say about any other series of books. Maisie is such a special character —how could we not miss her? Thank you, dear author, for sharing her.

Optntdr13 ,

Finale lives on…in our heart and soul!

I loved every minute of reading this book and never wanted it to end. I started with the first book in the series and cheered when each succeeding book came out. Yes, everyone should read the series. One has to love Maizie and her family. The author did a marvelous job of helping the reader become knowledgeable about the wars. We became sensitized about the sufferings of EVERYONE. Peace! Thanks.

nliith ,

Disappointing

Poor end to an otherwise wonderful series. Too much reiteration of previous plot lines, probably ¾ of the book, and too little carrying forward of the main characters’ lives. Disappointing all around.

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