A Dangerous Place - Maisie Dobbs Mysteries

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 . . . 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Winspear
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2015
• EAN: 9780062220554
• ISBN: 978-0-06-222055-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 228 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Maisie Dobbs; Maisie Dobbs
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION: Medical, FICTION: World Literature / Spain / 20th Century, FICTION: World Literature / England / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Health and illness