A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series Book 11), by Jacqueline Winspear
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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.
A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series Book 11), by Jacqueline Winspear- Amazon Sales Rank: #7590 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review ''This eleventh entry in the Maisie Dobbs series, with enough backstory to stand alone, shows the same meticulous research that grounds these books so firmly in their time and place, along with moving life changes that further humanize the intrepid protagonist. Another winner from Winspear.'' --Booklist, starred review ''A series that seems to get better with every entry.'' --Wall Street Journal, praise for the series ''A superb series.'' --Richmond Times-Dispatch, praise for the series ''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.'' --Kirkus
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“Another winner from Winspear.”—Booklist (starred review)
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, she hopes to find peace by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her to England: her aging father, Frankie Dobbs, is not getting any younger.
On a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn’t ready to return and disembarks in Gibraltar. In the British garrison town at the southern tip of Spain, she becomes enmeshed in the murder of Sebastian Babayoff, a photographer and member of Gibraltar’s Sephardic Jewish community. Meanwhile, at a crossroads between her past and future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.
“As always, Maisie—one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction—fulfills expectations. And Winspear continues to dazzle as she once again excels in and transcends the genre.”—Richmond Times–Dispatch
About the Author Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in Kent and emigrated to the USA in 1990. She has written extensively for journals, newspapers and magazines, and has worked in book publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. The Maisie Dobbs series of crime novels is beloved by readers worldwide. Web: www.jacquelinewinspear.com FB: Jacqueline Winspear @maisie_dobbs
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121 of 126 people found the following review helpful. Maisie is at a crossroads with this book, and so am I By Cathy G. Cole Maisie isn't the only person at a crossroads. As concerns this series, I am, too. Longtime fans will probably be as stunned as I over the first few pages of A Dangerous Place. In a series of letters, Winspear deals with four momentous years in Maisie's life with what can only be described as brisk efficiency. I can understand her desire not to bog down the narrative, but since Maisie is already constantly harking back to time spent with her mentor or her service in World War I or her college days or what her best friend would say to her, what's a little more time spent on telling readers about those four years?Winspear does her usual marvelous job in giving readers a real feel for the setting. With the Spanish Civil War raging just over the border, with the build-up to World War II, Gibraltar's strategic position makes it extremely valuable to many countries, and it seems that they all have representatives in place, lurking around the corners of buildings and following Maisie wherever she goes.The author has also created a strong secondary cast-- Salazar the café owner, Mrs. Bishop the owner of the guesthouse, and the dead man's sister among them. The more the story unfolds, the more it seems that no one is whom they first appear to be, and with the number of people spying on others it's a miracle they don't start tripping over each other. This is a presentiment of another problem I'm beginning to have with a series I've loved since its inception.The closer to World War II the series becomes, the more the storylines are delving into the shadowy world of spies and double-dealing. I've never cared for spy novels, so I'm definitely not enjoying this foray into that world. But as a character told Maisie in a previous book, once those spy organizations get their hooks into you, they don't let you go. I really don't want to see Maisie go down that road.Although the mystery is rather slow to unfold, it does pick up speed and becomes quite intriguing. I enjoyed watching Maisie solve a complex case, just as I enjoyed the author's depiction of Gibraltar at this very tumultuous time. I'm deeply invested in Winspear's character. Maisie's story has grown from being a rags-to-riches tale to something deeper and much more meaningful. But for the past few books, Maisie has seemed to take two steps back to every three steps forward. Her experiences during World War I have left an indelible mark upon her of which she seems unwilling or unable to let go. With her constant musing on the past, I just can't quite see her as a successful spy in the next calamitous war to come. I am at a crossroads, and I am actually wondering if I'll be continuing with this series-- something that would have been completely unthinkable in the past.
151 of 161 people found the following review helpful. Winspear is back to form... By Jill Meyer In 2003, UK-born author Jacqueline Winspear's first novel, "Maisie Dobbs" was published. It was an immediate publishing hit and was followed by seven or eight other novels featuring detective/psychologist, Maisie Dobbs. The first few novels in the series were extremely well written, with Jacqueline Winspear carefully detailing the back-story of Maisie's life and her studies at Cambridge and nursing work in France in the Great War. She created the character of Dr Maurice Blanche, who was Maisie's mentor and teacher as Maisie opened up her detective agency in London after the war. We read the cases that Maisie took on in those first few books and we see her private life as the doctor she had loved during the war is taken from her by a lingering death. Maisie Dobbs and the secondary characters were brilliant creations in Jacqueline Winspear's talented hands.And then, something happened to the books. Did Winspear lose interest in her characters? Was she bored with writing about 1920's London? Who really knows, but somehow the series lost its "oomph" and the last five or so novels were, I guess, "ordinary". They were good, not great, reads. In 2014 Winspear left her Maisie Dobbs character and wrote a stand-alone novel, also set in the Great War. This year, 2015, Winspear has returned to the series with an excellent novel, "A Dangerous Place". She's not back to her original mo-jo but this novel is certainly closer to the older novels than the more recent ones.This series began in the post-war years in London as Maisie established her unique detective agency. She solved crimes by intuition and psychological insight as much as by physical evidence. As the years passed, and the 1920's turned into the Depression years of the 1930's, Maisie evolved into a rather ordinary character with wealthy patrons and clients and a "don't ask me to commit" relationship with the rather dishy James Compton. "Will she" or "won't she" give up her independence to marry James and become "Lady Compton". Her cases also become less interesting. Finally, she closed her agency and went off to consider her life and her future. This book, "A Dangerous Place", tells of the years in the late 1930's and what Maisie's life has become.By 1937, Maisie's life has changed completely and she is at sixes-and-sevens as she searches for both emotional peace and her place in the rapidly changing world. She spends time in India - searching - and on the return trip to England, she impulsively gets off the boat in Gibraltar. She's not ready to face her English ghosts. She immediately gets involved in a murder mystery in the colony and begins a personal investigation that echoes the methods she used during her detective agency days in London. This is what is a throw-back to the earlier novels. Winspear invokes Maurice Blanche and his teachings far more in this book than in any recent book. "Our" Maisie is back to her long-time readers.Winspear also brings in the Spanish Civil War, raging over the border from Gibraltar. Part of the novel is set in war-torn Madrid and in the outlying battle areas. At the book's end, Maisie is still searching, but her path has become a lot clearer. "A Dangerous Place" is a great read.
57 of 62 people found the following review helpful. Truly a dangerous place and time in Miss Dobbs life By iiiireader Maisie Dobbs is at a low point in her life. She is learning to live her life again after what would easily be considered the most difficult of circumstances and blows that life can deal to a woman. In a sense, she is on the run from herself and that equals being on the run from her prior life. The personal struggle described in this book seems very real and will certainly stay with me long after having finished reading the story.As she tries to find the strength to find her way home to England, Maisie stops off in Gibraltar to work up her courage to make the final leg of the voyage home. Instead, she literally stumbles across the body of a man who has been murdered. She buries herself in the task of trying to figure out who killed the man and why others are trying to hide this information.The backdrop of the book is the Spanish Civil War. We are only taken to the actual war for a short period of the book but the main thrust of the information is about how and by whom this war was being fought. It is sometimes referred to as a practice war for World War II. While the players are moved about by the author as if they were pieces on a chess board, the war was essentially fascism versus socialism.It is in this environment that Maisie finds herself seeking simple truths and finding instead political intrigue and lies. The process of working through this morass is how Maisie starts to find the light at the end of her own dark tunnel.I have read a few of the Maisie Dobbs books and find this one quite different. It seems as if Maisie is at a turning point in her life and isn't quite sure which way she will go in the end. It is interesting to see this and to think that perhaps the character is showing us some indecision that the author is having. Whatever the case, I enjoyed reading the book and look forward to the next in the series - wherever Ms. Winspear decides to take Miss Dobbs.
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