A Dangerous Place

Maisie Dobbs #11

Jacqueline Winspear

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HarperLuxe
17 March 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Historical fiction

Series: Maisie Dobbs

In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril.

Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability - and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger.

But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place", she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on the Rock - arguably Britain's most important strategic territory - and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process.

At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.

By: Jacqueline Winspear
Imprint: HarperLuxe
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: large type edition
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780062370358
ISBN 10: 0062370359
Series: Maisie Dobbs
Publication Date: 17 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Dangerous Place: Maisie Dobbs #11

Winspear elegantly weaves historical events with Maisie s own suffering the bombing of Guernica is particularly well-done all while constructing an engaging whodunit. Fans of this long-running series will welcome Maisie s return in this 11th installment while feeling the pain of her losses as deeply as if they were their own. --<i>Kirkus</i>