Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)

Whether describing the drawing room of the novel's admirable Lady Rowan or the traumatic history that has taken a housemaid through the trenches of World War I France and on to her own, indubitably genteel, offices in London, the novel rarely moves beyond the surface, ... I've bought the second book in the series and I'm hoping that the author will relax, rein in the new age silliness, stop the singing, and let Maisie be the interesting resourceful heroine she could be. ...