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 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.
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
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.
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