A Dangerous Place: a Maisie Dobbs Novel

Marc Notes: Read by Orlagh Cassidy.; In Spring 1937, stopping in Gibraltar on her journey home to England, Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the investigation of the murder of Sebastian Babayoff, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community. Publisher Marketing: Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last 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 peril. Spring 1937. In the 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." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2014 pg. 63 (EAN 9780062220554, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2015 (EAN 9780062220554, Hardcover) Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 35 (EAN 9780062220554, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 03/15/2015 pg. 97 (EAN 9780062220554, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 29 (EAN 9780062220554, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Winspear, Jacqueline 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. Her standalone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times bestseller. 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. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.