Still, Winspear fans will find much to like. A gratuitous closing contrivance doesn’t help. The whodunit story line is often secondary to the larger historical picture-in particular, the British response to the retreat from Dunkirk and the threat of German invasion-and to developments in Maisie’s private life. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises. Maisie soon learns that Joe took a fatal fall onto a railway track, but the reader already knows, via the prologue, that he was bludgeoned to death. His son seemed different during their last visits, Phil tells her. When Joe’s family doesn’t hear from him for several days, his father, publican Phil Coombes, asks Maisie to trace the boy. Jacqueline Winspear To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel Paperback Large Print, Maby Jacqueline Winspear (Author) 2,138 ratings Book 14 of 17: Maisie Dobbs Editors' pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Before the war, 15-year-old Joe Coombes worked as an apprentice for a painting and decorating company that the British government retained to paint RAF facilities with a new kind of fire-retardant. To Die But Once Winspear, Jacqueline Published by Allison & Busby, Limited (2018) ISBN 10: 0749022345 ISBN 13: 9780749022341 New Softcover Quantity: 10 Seller: Majestic Books (Hounslow, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. The possible disappearance of a teenage boy drives bestseller Winspear’s so-so novel set in 1940 Britain, her 14th featuring London investigator and psychologist Maisie Dobbs (after 2017’s In This Grave Hour).
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