Book Rec of the Day 3/11/2007

Pardonable Lies is the third in Winspear’s acclaimed Maisie Dobbs series set in England after the Great War, and it’s her best effort yet. Winspear’s PI, Maisie, is more mature (she’s bobbed her hair at last), and the cases she takes on are more complex than in previous outings. Pardonable Lies takes her back to the battlefields of France, to a mysterious castle, and reveals a web of secrets and danger unlike any other she’s faced. Maisie has come into her own.

PARDONABLE LIES, by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt, 2005)