“The Mapping of Love and Death” - Jacqueline Winspear

(Maisie Dobbs book 7)

🏗️ I enjoy this series. Book 7 in the narrative arc finds Europe inching closer toward WW II.

🏗️ Maisie is as prone as ever to long bouts of introspection. She is also heavy-handed in her judgement of others, knowing as she does, how war throws people together in unimaginable circumstances.

🏗️ TMLD finds Maisie facing an interesting problem. She is approached by the parents of an American serviceman killed in action, only it seems he wasn’t killed by enemy fire, but by an unknown hand in the same trench. Maisie is tasked with gathering information to bring some measure of closure to the wealthy, Boston family. As expected, the tentacles of a past crime make their way - dangerously - into the present.

🏗️ TMLD echoes themes found in the Verity Kent series of the post-Great War return to a new normal, for women in particular, as the population of marriageable men had been decimated, forcing many women to contemplate vastly different, oftentimes lonely, futures.