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A Dangerous Place
- Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, Book 11
- Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
- Durée: 9 h et 46 min
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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 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 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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"[Narrator Orlagh] Cassidy makes the tension palpable as German planes bomb Guernica, while her insightful performance develops the thought-provoking ideas in Winspear's 11th Maisie Dobbs adventure. Series fans will be delighted." (AudioFile)
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- Paula Stein
- 2021-09-18
Well Constructed And Compelling
I love the Maisie Dobbs novels. Each mystery catches and holds my attention and the perpetrator(s) is not easily identified until all the clues are assembled (at least I’m not a whiz at figuring it out ahead of Maisie Dobbs).
The narrator (Orlagh Cassidy) is excellent, with the exception of not-so-great. foreign accents and Scottish, but I can overlook that because the story is so good and her reading is clear and well modulated. To my ear, she differentiates characters very well.
I’m also happy to see the author’s critical view of British society and a culture that turned its back on people in need: the poor, the downtrodden, injured war veterans, victims of a ruthless class system…and, nestled quietly within the story framework, references to the destructive colonial attitude and systemic racism that is endemic in British society.
I enjoy these novels because they are not filled with gratuitous violence as part of the solution to each mystery.
Maisie Dobbs is a smart, thoughtful, ethical main character.
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- brian neve
- 2023-07-02
A dangerous place
Excellent story I love these books and can read them over,the way she reads is excellent
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- 2022-11-06
Excellent
Especially loved the narrator and the beautiful descriptions by the author. I highly recommend others to listen too!
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