a dangerous place by jacqueline winspear

drawn into a climate of political intrigue that repels her-but keeps the rest of us avidly reading., Winspear elegantly weaves historical events with Maisie's own suffering-the bombing of Guernica is particularly well-done-all while constructing an engaging whodunit. Winspear, as usual, has made excellent use of her background research., The latest installment of Jacqueline Winspear's consistently interesting seriesâ€¦. And Winspear continues to dazzle as she once again excels in and transcends the genre., A welcome addition to the seriesâ€¦.It's an understatement to note that Ms. 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.Ī gripping and moving story, filled with fully realized characters and spare but stylish proseâ€¦.As always, Maisie-one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction-fulfills expectations. 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, Sebastian Babayoff, 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 on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return.

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. 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. 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.

A dangerous place by jacqueline winspear