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. Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger Spring 1937.
You can read this before A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs, #11) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs, #11) written by Jacqueline Winspear which was published in. Anyone facing down a "staycation" can pick up this series in a library or bookstore, transforming the week into something truly memorable.Brief Summary of Book: A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs, #11) by Jacqueline Winspear With spring breaks popping up this month and next, newbies ought to inhale the whole kit and kaboodle.
Readers who have not yet met Maisie Dobbs really mustn't make her acquaintance with this book. Therefore, I shall simply urge established fans to take their time, savoring each sentence, because this book "reads" very quickly.
It's difficult to share all that is OH-so-satisfying or heart-stopping in this latest chapter of Maisie's life without spilling the beans. Stuck as I am in my armchair adventurer role, this is such a gift! This is the first book I've read set in Gilbraltar and Winspear, as ever, chooses and uses details that make me feel as though I'm there. USPS delivered "A Dangerous Place" to my doorstep yesterday morning (yes, a Sunday!), transforming my rainy day into a perfect reading experience.
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