Series fans will find the characters’ personal development gratifying. The plot has more than its fair share of contrivances, including one involving the headmistress of Anna’s school that almost drags down the entire book. A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel Paperback Large Print, Maby Jacqueline Winspear (Author) 5,807 ratings Book 17 of 17: Maisie Dobbs See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 24.80 19 Used from 14.29 22 New from 24. Meanwhile, Dobbs must also address her adopted daughter Anna’s disturbing clingy behavior.

Maisie’s probing uncovers some coded messages at the spot where Crittenden was held captive, which her husband, Mark Scott, an American political attaché, discloses relate to a German plot to kill Eleanor Roosevelt on her goodwill tour of Britain. Despite that condition, Crittenden is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of a fellow private and is taken into military custody. Book: A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs 17) Genre: Mystery Publisher: Harper Publication date: 2022 Pages: 352 Source: e-book borrowed from library Summary: Britain has been at war for three years. One crashes near Bromley for no apparent reason, and when a second goes to the area to investigate, she finds an American soldier a black American soldier left tied up in a barn with a second (white) soldier missing in action. The unidentified shooter was at a farm, and when Jo visits the scene, she finds a Black American private, Matthias Crittenden, bound and gagged in one of the buildings. The plot of A Sunlit Weapon centers around the women pilots who comprise the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). In 1942, ferry pilot Jo Hardy consults Maisie after the plane she was flying over southeastern England was shot at by someone on the ground. Agatha Award winner Winspear ups the ante for Maisie Dobbs in her suspenseful if flawed 17th mystery featuring the British psychologist/investigator (after 2021’s The Consequences of Fear).

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