I wanted to know what made Maisie into Maisie, so I decided to go to the beginning and read the series from there.

I read the sixteenth book in the series first – The Consequences of Fear – and I was awestruck. Here are just a few words to tell you how I am feeling about this series. Joseph Kennedy is in the background of the novel, not a character, but a presence, and his resignation as ambassador to Britain is included. The struggle for the hearts and minds (and votes) of Americans was acute during this stage of the war. The words of Edward Murrow, JB Priestley, and other journalistic luminaries lend a nice touch of historical reality to the fiction. My favorite part of this chapter in the series is the inclusion of excerpts from newspapers and broadcasts, most aimed at an American audience. Meanwhile the Blitz has begun, there is more bad news for the Partridge's, and Maisie is on tenterhooks about Anna's adoption. The reporter had been trying to earn a spot under Edward Murrow and filed stories trying to turn American public opinion toward aiding England, rather than isolationism. In this, the fifteenth in the series, Maisie Dobbs is asked to work with American agent Mark Scott, whom she met in Munich a few books ago, to find the murderer of a young American reporter. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend-and the possibility that she might be falling in love again. As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon's death.

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. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. 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.

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