#5

Good old Maisie Dobbs.  #5 for 2013 is Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear ~ the fourth Maisie Dobbs novel.  Just when you think you know a character book four comes along...and thankfully, she is fresh and dynamic.  There's a little too much sadness in this tale for me.  I'm not happy she ended her relationship ~ that she had to choose between a mate and a career.  There was so much wrong with the world at that time...and, when I think about it, there still is.  We learn some from history, but not enough.  It seems humans have to learn on their own.
Good quote:
p 309 (this was actually a real live, I had to turn the page, book) ~ It occurred to her that the ritural of her final accounting was rather like closing up a house, for wasn't she checking each room before securing the door, looking out of a window to recall the view and then moving on?  And wasn't there always a new case, a new challenge, something fresh to ignite her appetite for excitement...
{I certainly hope so, Maisie, I certainly hope.}

fl: The taxi-cab slowed down alongside the gates of Camden Abbey, a red brick former mansion that seemed even more like a refuge as a bitter sleet swept across the gray, forbidding landscape.  ll: It was time to move on, to dance with life again.