Overall, this book is about secrets, art, and truth. Thus, in Messenger of Truth, Maisie frustrated me the most of the series’ novels. Instead, I saw her as a selfish woman who does not care about other people’s feelings. I did not buy into the idea that Maisie is an independent woman. She is very cold and distant, and I couldn’t fully understand her. She also avoids her boyfriend without a reason to do so. I did not sympathise with her during her drama and thought that she deserved the consequences that came to her. In my review of Pardonable Lies, I praised Maisie for being very relatable. She also awakens her own interest in art. Maisie also enters the art world and see the darkness that surrounds the glamouring facade. The clue to the secret lies in the events of WWI. She quickly learns that Nick's painting revealed a secret that someone wants to remain hidden. His sister believes that his death is not an accident and hires Maisie to investigate. My Review: Nick, a new artist, falls to his death on the night before his opening exhibition. But to solve the mystery of Nick's death, Maisie will have to keep her head as the forces behind the artist's fall come out of the shadows to silence her.įollowing on the bestselling Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear delivers another vivid, thrilling, and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs. In Messenger of Truth, Maisie once again uncovers the perilous legacy of the Great War in a society struggling to recollect itself. Nick was a veteran of World War I, and before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underbelly of the city's art world.

When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in her own right, isn't convinced. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. Synopsis: Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist-and World War I veteran-in the fourth entry in the bestselling series.

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