Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear

Aug 2005 · Maisie Dobbs Book 3 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy

About this audiobook

In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.

A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war—one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton.

Following on the heels of Winspear's triumphant Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies is another compelling installment in the chronicles of Maisie Dobbs, "a heroine to cherish" (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).

Includes a bonus interview with the author.

Ratings and reviews

This is my third maisie Dobbs book and I'm so disappointed with the new narrator, not British that's for certain, her Maurice (which she pronounced Morris) sounds the same as Maisie. I am not sure where Billy and her dads accents are from but not the places stated in the book, that's where I am from and she can't do a southern English accent to save her life. why dont narrators listen to the first books? Beyond a bad choice. I have just stopped listening...finally finished it, so awful. $27 wasted and now I see this person is going to read the remaining books. I guess americans won't be able to tell the difference. It is such a shame, I loved this series and have told so many people about it, but I can't listen to it any more. She is awful.

About the author

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the Maisie Dobbs novels, Maisie Dobbs and Birds of a Feather, both BookSense selections. A New York Times Notable Book, Maisie Dobbs has been nominated for seven awards, including the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel. The novel won the Agatha and Macavity Awards, as well as the Alex Award for an adult novel suitable for young adults. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in Southern California.

Orlagh Cassidy is the winner of the 2009 Best Voice in Children & Family Listening and the 2008 and 2011 Best Voice in Mystery & Suspense. She's narrated for Jacqueline Winspear, James Patterson, Erica Spindler, Beth Harbison, and Frank Herbert, among others.