![]() ''The case notes would not be filed away,'' we are told, ''until those whose lives were touched by her investigation had reached a certain peace with her findings, with themselves and with one another.'' ![]() Trained in Freudian psychology and conscious of the interaction of mind and body (she even follows the exercise regimen of Joseph Pilates), Maisie insists on tracing a crime to its psychic roots - and makes her clients sign an agreement to that effect. What makes Maisie such a remarkable operative is the holistic philosophy that informs her humane methods. ![]() Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator.'' First met in 2003 in ''Maisie Dobbs,'' a startlingly original debut work that won a nomination for an Edgar Award for best novel from the Mystery Writers of America, this unorthodox sleuth returns in BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Soho, $25) to continue her healing mission on behalf of the survivors of a lost generation. The Great War is over but the women's work is never done in Jacqueline Winspear's haunting novels, set in England before and after World War I, which feature a former military nurse who goes into private practice as ''M. In times of war, it has always fallen to women to bind up the wounded and bury the dead. ![]()
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