Book review: The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear

The forty-sixth book I read in 2017 was the seventh Maisie Dobbs novel, The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear.  In this installment, Maisie is retained by an American couple to investigate the final days of their son, who died in World War I but whose remains had just been discovered in France.

Winspear finally kills off Maurice Blanche in this novel, eliminating the Obi-Wan to Maisie's Luke and making Maisie a rich woman as she inherits his considerable fortune.  Billy and Doreen are expecting again, and Billy is still hoping to fulfill his dream of emigrating to Canada.  And Maisie is being courted by James Compton, raising the possibility that she may end up not only a rich woman but an aristocratic one.