May 9th, 2025
Home | Log in!

On Top Shelf
SEARCH AND DETECTSEARCH AND DETECT
Fresh Pick
THE GREEK HOUSE
THE GREEK HOUSE

New Books This Week

Reader Games


The books of May are here—fresh, fierce, and full of feels.

Slideshow image


Since your web browser does not support JavaScript, here is a non-JavaScript version of the image slideshow:

slideshow image
Wedding season includes searching for a missing bride�and a killer . . .


slideshow image
Sometimes the path forward begins with a step back.


slideshow image
One island. Three generations. A summer that changes everything.


slideshow image
A snapshot made them legends. What it didn�t show could tear them apart.


slideshow image
This life coach will give you a lift!


slideshow image
A twisty, "addictive," mystery about jealousy and bad intentions


slideshow image
Trapped by magic, haunted by muses�she must master the cards before they�re lost to darkness.


slideshow image
Masquerades, secrets, and a forbidden romance stitched into every seam.


slideshow image
A vanished manuscript. A murdered expert. A castle full of secrets�and one sharp-witted sleuth.


Since your web browser does not support JavaScript, here is a non-JavaScript version of the image slideshow:

slideshow image
Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The Mapping Of Love And Death

The Mapping Of Love And Death, March 2011
Maisie Dobbs #7
by Jacqueline Winspear

HarperCollins
Featuring: Maisie Dobbs
368 pages
ISBN: 0061727687
EAN: 9780061727689
Trade Size
Add to Wish List


Purchase



"Maisie Dobbs will take on a case which will lead to a new love."

Fresh Fiction Review

The Mapping Of Love And Death
Jacqueline Winspear

Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted February 25, 2011

Mystery Woman Sleuth

Maisie is asked to investigate the case of a young American who died in France. He was a cartographer who went missing. His body, and those of the men in his unit, were discovered recently. His family is eager to find out what happened. As the youngest in a wealthy family, he was cherished by his parents. He was doing some mapping in California when the war broke out. Instead of returning home, he immediately set off to England to enlist. The maps he was creating were invaluable to the English army as they fought the German army. At the same time as Maisie and her right hand man, Billy, look into Michael Clifton's death, Billy's wife has returned from the hospital she went to after her breakdown. Maisie contacts her former employers and runs into their son, Stephen. Stephen provides invaluable help to Maisie's investigation. One of many who suffered during the war, Stephen went to Canada to work in his family business. He has returned a much different man who wants nothing but peace. Maisie approaches her mentor for confirmation of her fears about the cause of Micheal's death. Maisie is shocked to learn that Maurice is severely ill. Even with her sorrow for Maurice weighing on her, Maisie continues the investigation into Michael's murder. Unexpectedly, she finds herself falling in love. The Maisie Dobbs mysteries deal with some difficult and painful topics. Placed at the end of the Great War, Maisie deals with the trauma of the war and the indignities of her chosen profession with a stoicism and dignity that will charm the reader. As a follower of the series, it is nice to see Maisie emerge from her melancholy to find love again. Masterfully plotted and placed against a time in English history when the structure of society was undergoing a radical change, the Dobbs mysteries will keep the reader coming back for more.

Learn more about The Mapping Of Love And Death

SUMMARY

In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death - an investigation that leads her to a long- hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse. August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe. Michael - the youngest son of an expatriate Englishman - puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among those missing in action. April 1932. London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is retained by Michael's parents, who have recently learned that their son's remains have been unearthed in France. They want Maisie to find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among Michael's belongings - a quest that takes Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love. Her inquiries, and the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his trench, unleash a web of intrigue and violence that threatens to engulf the soldier's family and even Maisie herself. Over the course of her investigation, Maisie must cope with the approaching loss of her mentor, Maurice Blanche, and her growing awareness that she is once again falling in love. Following the critically acclaimed bestseller Among the Mad, The Mapping of Love and Death delivers the most gripping and satisfying chapter yet in the life of Maisie Dobbs.


What do you think about this review?

Comments

No comments posted.

Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!

 

 

 

© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net  all rights reserved Privacy Policy