Then for some reason the books changed and I became disillusioned with Maisie the character had changed so much and reading about her lost the thrill it had previously held. I do remember falling in love with the character when I first discovered her and wanting to read everything I could in which she was the focus. I don’t recall how many Maisie Dobbs books I’ve read at this point. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Notable Book.įind out more about Jacqueline at her website, and find her on Facebook. Her standalone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times bestseller. Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Leaving Everything Most Loved, Elegy for Eddie, A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other national bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. 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. 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.Īnd the danger is very real. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, “You will be alone in a most dangerous place,” she disembarks in Gibraltar.
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 Gibraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit, and danger. I received a free copy for my honest review. I am pleased to continue my reading adventures with Maisie Dobbs with the latest book, A Dangerous Place.
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