If she makes a good impression with this premiere broadcast, she might be able to turn it into a regular gig. Catherine is on the verge of a big opportunity in her career – the chance to host a radio program for the same agency that employs the famous Edward R. One night while on ambulance duty with best friend Pris, Maisie and her pal meet American journalist Catherine Saxon, who reports on the terror stalking London for news agencies back home. While the mystery portion might work fine as a standalone, the book is definitely best read in sequence with the rest of the series since there is a prodigious amount of background information pertaining to Maisie’s personal life the reader would benefit from knowing before jumping in. A tale of triumph over tragedy, it is sure to please the author’s many fans. (Mar.In The American Agent, the fifteenth novel in the Maisie Dobbs series, we find our titular heroine working as a volunteer ambulance driver during the 1940 London Blitz. Readers will eagerly await her next outing. In Winspear’s capable hands, Maisie has evolved into a deeply sympathetic character. Meanwhile, Maisie seeks to adopt a war orphan. As the number of suspects in Catherine’s murder increases, Maisie’s romantic feelings grow for Mark, who’s also investigating the American ambassador to the U.K., Nazi sympathizer Joseph P. When Scotland Yard enlists Maisie’s help in solving the case, she’s reunited with Mark Scott, an American agent with whom she once had a brief flirtation in Munich. Maisie enjoys the company of the effervescent American, who unfortunately is found murdered in her flat the next morning.
One night while on duty, she meets American journalist Catherine Saxon, who reports on the horrors of the blitz for radio listeners in the U.S. As a volunteer ambulance driver in London in 1940, Maisie Dobbs aids the victims of the German blitz, in bestseller Winspear’s excellent 15th novel featuring the psychologist/investigator (after 2018’s To Die But Once).
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