Gratuit avec l'essai de 30 jours
-
Pardonable Lies
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Narrateur(s): Orlaugh Cassidy
- Série: Maisie Dobbs, Livre 3
- Durée: 10 h et 22 min
- Version intégrale Livre audio
- Catégories: Romans policiers et thrillers, Roman policier
Échec de l'ajout au panier.
Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.
Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.
Échec du suivi du balado
Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué
Abonnement à Audible
14,95$ par mois
Acheter pour 31,97$
Aucun mode de paiement valide enregistré.
Nous sommes désolés. Nous ne pouvons vendre ce titre avec ce mode de paiement
Explorer
-
Messenger of Truth
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 11 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, isn't so sure. For help with this case, Georgina seeks out Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator.
-
-
Ambivalence about this book is a trouble for me. I feel invested in Maisie and can understand more about her progress in life a
- Écrit par Quilts-a-lot (by hand) le 2022-06-27
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
An Incomplete Revenge
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the midst of the hop-picking season in the village of Heronsdene, Kent, Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, undertakes an assignment from James Compton, son of her long-time supporter, Lady Rowan Compton, to look into aspects of a land purchase on his behalf. Quickly drawn into the local community, Maisie soon becomes involved in an effort to discover the source of petty crime in the area as well as a spate of fires that has blighted Heronsdene for years.
-
-
Wonderful!
- Écrit par Linda's Page le 2022-06-18
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Among the Mad
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met - and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case.
-
-
Among the mad... but healing
- Écrit par KanadianKindle le 2022-05-01
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
The Mapping of Love and Death
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the latest mystery in the New York Times best-selling 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,,,,
-
-
Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!
- Écrit par KanadianKindle le 2022-05-02
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
A Lesson in Secrets
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government". She soon finds herself investigating a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Elegy for Eddie
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Book 9
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
To the costermongers of Covent Garden Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, the grieving costers are skeptical about the cause of his death. Who would want to kill Eddie - and why? Maisie Dobbs' father, Frankie, had been a costermonger, so she had known the men since childhood. She remembers Eddie fondly and is determined to offer her help. But it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally determined to prevent her from learning the truth behind Eddie's death.
-
-
One of the least appealing of the series
- Écrit par LK le 2022-06-22
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Messenger of Truth
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 11 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, isn't so sure. For help with this case, Georgina seeks out Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator.
-
-
Ambivalence about this book is a trouble for me. I feel invested in Maisie and can understand more about her progress in life a
- Écrit par Quilts-a-lot (by hand) le 2022-06-27
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
An Incomplete Revenge
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the midst of the hop-picking season in the village of Heronsdene, Kent, Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, undertakes an assignment from James Compton, son of her long-time supporter, Lady Rowan Compton, to look into aspects of a land purchase on his behalf. Quickly drawn into the local community, Maisie soon becomes involved in an effort to discover the source of petty crime in the area as well as a spate of fires that has blighted Heronsdene for years.
-
-
Wonderful!
- Écrit par Linda's Page le 2022-06-18
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Among the Mad
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met - and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's personal fiefdom as a special adviser on the case.
-
-
Among the mad... but healing
- Écrit par KanadianKindle le 2022-05-01
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
The Mapping of Love and Death
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the latest mystery in the New York Times best-selling 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,,,,
-
-
Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!
- Écrit par KanadianKindle le 2022-05-02
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
A Lesson in Secrets
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government". She soon finds herself investigating a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Elegy for Eddie
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Book 9
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 10 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
To the costermongers of Covent Garden Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, the grieving costers are skeptical about the cause of his death. Who would want to kill Eddie - and why? Maisie Dobbs' father, Frankie, had been a costermonger, so she had known the men since childhood. She remembers Eddie fondly and is determined to offer her help. But it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally determined to prevent her from learning the truth behind Eddie's death.
-
-
One of the least appealing of the series
- Écrit par LK le 2022-06-22
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Leaving Everything Most Loved
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 10
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a scheduled interview. Meanwhile, unfinished business from a previous case becomes a distraction, as does a new development in Maisie's personal life.
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
A Dangerous Place
- Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, Book 11
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability - and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father, Frankie Dobbs, is not getting any younger.
-
-
Well Constructed And Compelling
- Écrit par Paula Stein le 2021-09-18
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Journey to Munich
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks toward Fitzroy Square - a place of many memories - she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie - who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter - to retrieve the man from Dachau....
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
To Die but Once
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as "the Bore War" - nothing much seems to have happened yet - Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a "hush-hush" government contract. As Maisie's inquiry reveals a possible link to the London underworld, another mother is worried about a missing son - but this time the boy in question is one beloved by Maisie.
-
-
Great Story Line
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
In This Grave Hour
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Führer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead.
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
The American Agent
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 11 h et 2 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice - Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler’s Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon’s death.
-
-
Beloved Maisie Dobbs
- Écrit par irene le 2022-01-27
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Birds of a Feather
- Maisie Dobbs Mysteries
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Kim Hicks
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Maisie Dobbs is back, and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War.
-
-
Love This Series , But
- Écrit par Dawn Duncan le 2022-05-04
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
The Consequences of Fear
- A Maisie Dobbs Novel
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 10 h et 27 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times best-selling mystery series.
-
-
Another Good one!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-04-25
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
A Sunlit Weapon
- A Novel (Maisie Dobbs, Book 17)
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 11 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire - the fastest fighter aircraft in the world - to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
-
-
Very hard to listen to
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-03-31
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Maisie Dobbs
- Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrateur(s): Rita Barrington
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence - and the patronage of her benevolent employers - she works her way into college at Cambridge. After the War I and her service as a nurse, Maisie hangs out her shingle back at home: M. DOBBS, TRADE AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS. But her very first assignment soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.
-
-
Elegant and Absorbing
- Écrit par snivsl le 2022-04-25
Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
-
Death in a Darkening Mist
- A Lane Winslow Mystery, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Iona Whishaw
- Narrateur(s): Marilla Wex
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
On a snowy day in December 1946, Lane Winslow - a former British intelligence agent who’s escaped to the rural Canadian community of King’s Cove in pursuit of a tranquil life - is introduced to the local hot springs. While there, she overhears nearby patrons speaking Russian. When one of those patrons is found dead in the change room, Lane’s linguistic and intelligence experience is of immeasurable value to the local police force in solving the murder.
-
-
Kinda disappointed
- Écrit par Gayle le 2021-12-24
Auteur(s): Iona Whishaw
-
An Old, Cold Grave
- Auteur(s): Iona Whishaw
- Narrateur(s): Marilla Wex
- Durée: 8 h et 56 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
It’s early spring of 1947 in idyllic King’s Cove, and the Hughes ladies, mère et filles, are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for the winter. But while cleaning up after the roof of their root cellar has caved in slightly, they are horrified to discover a small skeletal hand embedded in the mess. Panicked, they call Lane Winslow, the ex-British secret service agent, and, not without some misgivings about the state of their tense relationship, Lane calls Inspector Darling.
Auteur(s): Iona Whishaw
Description
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe. Every once in a while, a detective bursts on the scene who captures readers' hearts, and imaginations, and doesn't let go. And so it was with Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs, who made her debut just two years ago in the eponymously titled first book of the series, and is already on her way to becoming a household name.
A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war, one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Agatha-winner Winspear's engrossing third Maisie Dobbs novel maintains the high quality of its predecessors....Filled with convincing characters, this is a complex tale of healing, of truth and half-truth, of long-held secrets, some, perhaps, to be held forever. Winspear writes seamlessly." (Publishers Weekly)
D'autres livres audio du même...
Ce que les auditeurs disent de Pardonable Lies
Moyenne des évaluations de clientsÉvaluations – Cliquez sur les onglets pour changer la source des évaluations.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Dawn Duncan
- 2022-05-09
Love It!
Love this series, love Maisie Dobbs! Such a relief to have a new narrator. Now Billy sounds like a normal person again!
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- KanadianKindle
- 2022-04-23
Another winner!
Maisie Dobbs will charm you. She will let you into her life... as confusing for her as it is for the reader. It is refreshing to see a character portrayed in such an open manner. To see her question... to stumble... to recover... to persevere...
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Linda's Page
- 2022-04-22
Beautiful!
I am hooked and have fallen in love with all of the characters from Masie to Dr. Dean. I can't wait to read the next one. Bless you for your foresight and the heart you put into your words.
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Ryan Smith
- 2021-12-04
Wonderful
It was a wonderful book, in a wonderful series! Just wonderful! I loved it. I won’t soon forget it.
-
Au global
- Nancy
- 2006-05-09
Maisie Does It Again
I am a Maisie Dobbs fan. I've read her two previous books but I decided to listen to her third--Pardonable Lies. The narration by the author was well done and this made the book very enjoyable to listen to. I also enjoyed the interview with the author at the end of the book.
13 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Histoire
- Karen. Corcoran
- 2010-10-25
Problem with part 1
I believe there is file a problem with Part 1 of Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. I burned this book to CDs and put it on iPod; same issue exists with both devices. I also re-downloaded the file - no change. At about the 293 minute point, the book integrity is lost - it starts repeating - the chapters make no sense based on previous content, previous sections are repeated until 264 minutes from the end of part 1, when it gets back on track.
The story is great; the electronic filefor Part 1 is the problem which Audible needs to fix.
25 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- mary
- 2012-05-09
please find someone else to narrate.
I have just begun Pardonable Lies. I am very disappointed in the narration. I was going to let it pass, but after listening to the very illuminating interview with Jacqueline Winspear which follows Messenger of Truth I feel impelled to say something. These books are quite good. The detection of crime is but one element; the books are very strong anti-war statements. Ms. Winspear’s research is far reaching and her depiction of the physical, moral and psychological devastation in England during and after WW1, and the consequent enforced poverty, is powerful and heartbreaking. Ms. Winspear says in the interview that she actually hears the voices of her characters in her head. This narrator (Orlaugh Cassidy) shows us little in this regard. Frequently a sentimental approach is taken (which blunts an affect) and with a one dimensional painting of the characters. There is seemingly little understanding of who or what it is she is reading. I will make my point with one example: there is a young girl who is introduced in the first chapter of Pardonable Lies and we are given certain information to allow us to know she has undergone a traumatic event. When she finally speaks she has a rather generic cockney sound - it could, in fact, be Billy speaking. This could, perhaps, be passable, but there is no sense that this child has undergone anything, let alone involvement in murder or that she is covered in blood and grime. Rather than being drawn into this child, I was taken altogether out of the story. These are good books and call out for a narrator with an imagination, one who will move the story along in an organic way.
38 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
- Christy
- 2011-03-29
Excellent Series
Maisie Dobbs is a unique heroine. Her mysteries are not as much mysteries as puzzles of human nature. I thoroughly enjoy them and each time I am transported back to the era "between the wars." Winspear does a wonderful job of portraying England and the people during this time, and the reader is reminded of the enormous impact that The Great War had on all of the people of the time.
Not the least of those impacted were women of all walks of life and from all classes. Maisie is one of those people with a fascinating background and an intriguing career as a "psychologist/investigator."
The narrator seemed perfect to tell Maisie's story. I look forward to hearing more.
7 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
- Helen
- 2010-02-09
Excellent!
The story line in this book compliments so many different issues. Winspear does an excellent job making the issues very real for the reader. You get to understand Maisie more in this book. The compassion in this story is it's greatest achievement...bravo!
7 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Mary Ann Alexeeff
- 2015-09-27
Narrator spoiled the story
I an disappointed that Audible continued using Orlaugh Cassiday to narrate the Maisie Dobbs books. Although I am not a native speaker of French, I learned the basics of pronunciation in my first high school class. I love the books, but I will buy them on Kindle rather than Audible, until a narrator who is less ignorant of the French language is available. A Frenchman named Maurice called "Morris"? Really?
6 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Anne
- 2014-12-23
Continuing an interesting and unusual series
Maisie Dobbs is an investigator in London in 1930. There is nothing predictable about her. She's a fascinating, complicated, multi-dimensional character whose depth continues to grow as I get acquainted. The new narrator took a bit of getting used to, but I find I like her performance just fine (although I found her anglicized pronunciation of the Frenchman Maurice Blanche's name to be distracting, reduced to Morris Blanch.)
The Dobbs stories contain a bit of mysticism and this is the darkest so far in the series as Maisie and her contemporaries continue to deal with the aftermath of WW I. I have developed a new appreciation for the scope of that terrible conflict as a result of this series. In spite of its darkness and the serious nature of her investigations related to finding out about two lost airmen in France, the story is not a "downer." It's more "realistic" ... with some spooky stuff.
The resolution will strain your credulity a little bit, but I can deal with that for the sake of a really good story... and this is a really good story.
I liked "Pardonable Lies" a great deal and I am not hesitating to purchase and download book 4 in the series.
6 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
- Marcia Y.
- 2009-02-20
Boy I love a good mystery, this is one!
Loved the 4 different mysteries running through this listen. You always think about how the world was changed by WWII, but this makes you think about how WWI changed things also, and how bad it will be in WWII.
5 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
-
Performance
-
Histoire
- Finley S. Fendt
- 2005-09-28
Another continued story
The detail continues to amaze. Jacqueline Winspear has an tremendous talent for detail in her portrayal of Maisie Dobbs as her investigative journey takes her to a conclusion to the task in hand.
11 les gens ont trouvé cela utile
-
Au global
- Heather
- 2007-01-08
Great Book
A good mystery, but also a brief and bittersweet account of the first World War from the viewpoint of a strong, no-nonsense woman. I love the main character and would like Audible to get more of Winspear's books.
9 les gens ont trouvé cela utile