[Maisie Dobbs 11] - A Dangerous Place - Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

Category: Detective

Tags: Detective, Historical Fiction

This was originally uploaded by OldScotsman. Thank you!, ABOUT THE BOOK 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 Winspears 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 isnt ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain, who warns her, You will be alone in a most dangerous place,