Still, Winspear fans will find much to like. To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel Jacqueline Winspear HarperCollins, Mar 27, 2018- Fiction- 336 pages 15Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. 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. 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. 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. 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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