Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India.
In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability-and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards.Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place. She is also the author of the standalone WWI novel, The Care and Management of Lies. Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Leaving Everything Most Loved, Elegy for Eddie, A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. 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. 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. Days after Maisie’s arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar’s Sephardic Jewish community is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service.
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.
Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, “You will be alone in a most dangerous place,” she disembarks in Gibraltar. 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.īut on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn’t ready to return. Now, in A Dangerous Place, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India.
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