Jacqueline Winspear’s series comes to and end with “The Comfort of Ghosts,” a tale that reminds us why this plucky heroine has become so beloved.
It’s hard to say goodbye to a beloved fictional character. But here we are, waving farewell to Maisie Dobbs.,” publishing this week, is the 18th and final installment of Jacqueline Winspear’s mystery series starring the nurse turned private investigator.
The series setting — the time between the two great wars of the 20th century — might seem like familiar literary territory now, but Maisie Dobbs paved the way for a genre of women-centered wartime historical fiction. Novels like Martha Hall Kelly’s “Lilac Girls,” Kate Quinn’s “The Alice Network” and Jennifer Chiaverini’s “Canary Girls” found eager audiences, thanks in part to readers who were looking for more of what Winspear had to offer.
The novel’s opening chapters find Maisie back at the London mansion where, as a teenager, she worked as a maid. The place has been vacant and squatters have moved in. Because the owners have become family to Maisie over the years, she stops by to take a look — but she doesn’t intend to evict the intruders. Her primary concern is their welfare, and when she manages to speak to one of them through the letterbox flap in the door, she asks first if they are warm and fed.
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