false 7433 10 London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nicks twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in her own right, isnt convinced. In Messenger of Truth, Maisie once again uncovers the perilous legacy of the Great War in a society struggling to recollect itself. But to solve the mystery of Nicks death, Maisie will have to keep her head as the forces behind the artists fall come out of the shadows to silence her. Following on the bestselling Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear delivers another vivid, thrilling, and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs. 868405 book 22 8 2006 Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4) total:1010|5:230|4:489|3:247|2:40|1:4| 1010 3931 1295 134 3 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 12:14:07 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 12:15:10 -0700 2007
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I was frustrated at Maisie's treatment of her love interest, probably because I could see myself possibly acting the same as her. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 16:27:29 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 16:36:02 -0700 2008 p. 2 - '"Grief is not an event, my dear, but a passage, a pilgrimage along a path that allows us to reflect upon the past from points of remembrance held in the soul. At times the way is filled with stones underfoot and we feel pained by our memories, yet on oth...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 15:14:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 15:19:30 -0700 2008
But.....I think I hated this book. It is so filled with pain and despair that it affected my mood, or maybe it was my mood t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 05:15:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 04:08:41 -0700 2009 Maisie helped a friend Priscilla, who we met in the original Maise Dobbs book while ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 18 11:28:16 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 11:30:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:38:23 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 09:09:29 -0700 2009 Pardonable Lies, and the mystery here felt a little flat in comparison. It's been a few weeks since I finished it and I had to search my memory for the plot. Perhaps what appealed to me most about the third book was how much time we spend with Maisie's past and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 22:21:41 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 22:34:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 12 12:58:17 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 13:00:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7433