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Jacqueline Winspear Read a History of Cocaine as Research
  + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“War” by Sebastian Junger, “End Times” by Peter Turchin and “The Unwinding,” the fabulous book by illustrator/writer Jackie Morris. No one should be surprised by a writer’s library. We all read well beyond the literary forms for which we are known. However, a friend was scanning my shelves and asked, “Why do you have that book on cocaine?” Dominic Streatfeild’s “Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography” is a terrific book — I read it for background research. Sometimes my mother would comment, “I think that book will mean more to you when you’re older, love.”
Persons: Sebastian Junger, Peter Turchin, Jackie Morris, ” Dominic Streatfeild’s, , Organizations:
2 Legendary Detectives Take Their Final Cases
  + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sarah Weinman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
It’s fall 1945, just after the end of World War II. Maisie has been asked to investigate the four orphaned teens who are squatting in the vacant, once-grand London mansion where she worked as a maid years ago. There, she inadvertently stumbles onto a decades-old mystery involving her first husband, who died while test-piloting an airplane. Maisie’s life will be forever changed by what she discovers: “Truth had at last come to the surface, had eased itself from the boundaries of the past as if it were a splinter rising up through skin.” Winspear gives Maisie the grace to face her pain, and wraps up the series with a deft touch.
Persons: Maisie, Winspear Locations: London
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