THE MAPPING OF LOVE AND DEATH by Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs runs her own private investigating business in London during the 1930s.  An American couple visit her looking for information about their son Michael who was killed during World War I some 15 years earlier.  His body has just been discovered in a field in France and an examination of the remains is revealing.  First of all, he was not killed in battle--he was murdered.  Also discovered with Michael's body was a pack of letters from a nurse with whom he apparently had a relationship.  Michael's parents want Maisie to find the nurse and to discover who killed their son.  Maisie accepts the case and finds herself immersed in memories of her own time as a nurse during WWI and the loss of her fiance to that war.

Maisie Dobbs is one of my favorite characters.  She is independent, but occasionally finds herself a bit lonely.  She is intelligent and sensitive.  I also always enjoy reading books with this setting.  Our library has only one other Maisie Dobbs book, but several others have been published.

I created a Google Map to show where various events in the book occur.  Here is the link:
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INCARCERON by Catherine Fisher

Set in the not too distant future, Incarceron is a prison that was created centuries before the book begins.  Originally intended as a perfect place--a utopia--Incarceron is anything but.  People run in gangs, and violence and danger are everywhere.  No one is to enter, and no one has ever escaped.  Maybe.  Finn, a teenager, lives in Incarceron with no memory of his childood, and is convinced that he came from the outside.  He is determined to return there. 

Claudia, the teenage daughter of the warden of Incarceron, is also trying to escape--from an arranged marriage with an older man.  She discovers a mysterious crystal key in her father's study.  When Finn discovers a matching key in Incarceron they discover that they can communicate with each other.

INCARCERON is one of the many dystopian novels that have been published recently, and it's a good one with lots of good versus evil action and even a bit of a romance.  First book in the series.