Jacqueline Winspear Books In Order – Complete List
Jacqueline Winspear is the bestselling author of the historical mystery series Maisie Dobbs, featuring Maisie, a psychologist and private detective in London starting out in the 1920s after the end of WWI.
Here are the Jacqueline Winspear books in order for her Maisie Dobbs historical mystery novels and the rest of the titles she published. The publication order and reading order are the same in this series. Based on the author’s note, the series ends with The Comfort of Ghosts, published in 2024.
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Maisie Dobbs Books In Publication Order
- Maisie Dobbs, 2003
- Birds of a Feather, 2004
- Pardonable Lies, 2005
- Messenger of Truth, 2006
- An Incomplete Revenge, 2008
- Among the Mad, 2009
- The Mapping of Love and Death, 2010
- A Lesson in Secrets, 2011
- Elegy for Eddie, 2012
- Leaving Everything Most Loved, 2013
- A Dangerous Place, 2015
- Journey to Munich, 2016
- In This Grave Hour, 2017
- To Die But Once, 2014
- The American Agent, 2019
- The Consequences of Fear, 2021
- A Sunlit Weapon, 2022
- The Comfort of Ghosts, 2024
Other Maisie Dobbs Books
- What Would Maisie Do?: Inspiration from the Pages of Maisie Dobbs, 2019
- Maisie Dobbs: A Mysterious Profile, 2022 (part of the Mysterious Profiles series)
Standalone Novels in Order of Publication
- The Care and Management of Lies, 2015
- The White Lady, 2022
Short Story Anthologies
Non-Fiction Books
- This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing, 2020 (memoir)
About the Maisie Dobbs Books – Overview
Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series are mystery novels set in post-WWI Britain. While each book is set around a particular mystery, through this series we can learn a lot about those early European times, that is England between WWI and II.
The Maisie Dobbs books are strongly interconnected with the after-effects of the Great War. Through the historical mystery genre, the authors hint at what happened to regular, everyday people in those tragic times. Since the stories are linear, reading the Jacqueline Winspear books in order of publication is highly recommended.
The way the series began was quite interesting. One day, while Jacqueline Winspear was stuck in traffic in San Francisco during the spring of 2000, she had a quick vision of a girl coming out from the station in 1929. This scene was playing in Jacqueline Winspear’s mind like a movie with more intricate details, prompting her to write down her initial thoughts and the first chapter of the emerging novel. This was a moment of inspiration that would create a powerful female character, Maisie Dobbs, who would enthrall millions of readers around the world.
Jacqueline Winspear Biography
Jacqueline Winspear was born in 1955 in a small village in Kent, United Kingdom, where she grew up.
After graduating from the University of London Institute of Education, since the teaching market was flooded, she started working as a flight attendant as she wanted to see the world.
Next, she took sales and marketing jobs in academic publishing, higher education, and marketing communications.
In 1990 she moved to the US, where she began working as a professional and personal coach. It was during this time that she became again interested in writing books (her childhood dream), and the topic of WWI became a natural choice. She partly based the Maisie Dobbs series on her grandfather’s experience in the First World War. He was badly injured at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and his pain influenced the backdrop of her first novel.
The author has also written several articles in women’s magazines on topics evolving around international education.
A full-time author, she is currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States, however, she takes often trips to the UK each year, where she visits her parents in Sussex.
What is the Latest Maisie Dobbs Book?
The latest Maisie Dobbs book is The Comfort of Ghosts. It is the 18th book in the series and most likely the last. It was released in June 2024.
Adaptation of any Jacqueline Winspear Book
The Clintons have acquired the film and TV rights to the Maisie Dobbs books. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are both fans of the books and have shared them over the years.
They announced their acquisition through their production company HiddenLight Productions in September 2021. The Clintons and Sam Branson founded the company in December 2020 with a focus on documentary, unscripted, and scripted entertainment. No details about the cast, crew, or release date of the Maisie Dobbs series on TV have been revealed yet.
Jacqueline Winspear Awards and Nominations
Maisie Dobbs
- 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel
- 2004 Macavity Award for Best First Novel
- 2004 Dilys Award Best Book nomination
- 2004 Edgar Awards Best Novel nomination
- New York Times Notable Book 2003
- 2004 Alex Award
Birds of a Feather
- 2004 Agatha Award for Best Novel
- 2005 Dilys Award Best Book nomination
Pardonable Lies
- 2005 Agatha Award Best novel nomination
- 2006 Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel
Messenger of Truth
- 2006 Agatha Award Best Novel nomination
The Mapping of Love and Death
- 2011 Left Coast Crime Bruce Alexander Award
Elegy for Eddy
- 2012 Agatha Award Best Historical Novel nomination
A Lesson in Secrets
- 2012 Agatha Award Best Historical Novel nomination
Unfortunately I have been reading this series in the wrong order, not having realised how many of them there are, though I wish there were many many more!
I love the character of Maisie Dobbs, she is so caring and resourceful- I’m now ordering as many as I can at my local library!
Please keep writing them Jacqueline, as you have such a large fan base out there, all waiting for the next novel.
Thank you
LOVE LOVE LOVE all of them!
This is a wonderful series. I have enjoyed Maisie as a character; she is admirable, complex, caring, brave, intelligent, vulnerable, and strong. She is not perfect just like all of us. I would love to have her as my friend. Thank you for creating such a marvelous character and for letting me join her through a period of history that I only knew about from high school history. I have learned so much about the role that women played during war times and it has made me so proud of them. You, Miss Winspear, have done so much research that you made those periods of history come alive for your readers. Thank you.
What a terrific series. I wish I had read Masie Dobbs in order!
Love these books. I have all of them up to American Agent.
When is the next one due, soon I hope.
A Dangerous Place begins by telling about her marrying James.
I think I read one book out of sequence. In which book does Maisie marry?