Reading.....Maisie Dobbs

For the past few days, I've been completely immersed in the world of Maisie Dobbs, the heorine of Jacqueline Winspear's historical mystery/romance series. Maisie Dobbs is a private investigator, working in London just following the first world war. The historical details peppered throughout the novels are fascinating, and the heroine herself is hardly your typical PI. Through Maisie, Winspear brings sensivitivity and compassion to a genre that doesn't typically focus on those two human attributes. Although she has razor sharp intelligence and keen insights, Maisie Dobbs doesn't merely solve crimes. She finds solutions to complex problems that affect wide circles of people living in the shadow of one of the most turbulent, destructive eras of human history.

I've just finished the first novel, entitled Maisie Dobbs, and moved on to the second in the series, Birds of a Feather. These books are much more than just cozy mystery novels to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, although if you're anything like me, you will greatly enjoy doing just that.