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  • A Dangerous Place: Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, Book 11
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A Dangerous Place: Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, Book 11 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Jacqueline Winspear (Author), Orlagh Cassidy (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)
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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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  1. Book 11 of 18
    Maisie Dobbs
  2. Listening Length
    9 hours and 46 minutes
  3. Author
    Jacqueline Winspear
  4. Narrator
    Orlagh Cassidy
  5. Audible release date
    March 17 2015
  6. Language
    English
  7. Publisher
    HarperAudio
  8. ASIN
    B071NXJJ2Z
  9. Version
    Unabridged
  10. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Book 11 of 18 Maisie Dobbs
Listening Length 9 hours and 46 minutes
Author Jacqueline Winspear
Narrator Orlagh Cassidy
Audible.ca Release Date March 17 2015
Publisher HarperAudio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B071NXJJ2Z
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Customers find the story well-written, intriguing, and clever. They also appreciate the content, saying it's good and up to Jacqueline Windspear's standard of excellence.

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Customers find the story well-written, intriguing, and clever. They appreciate the author's ability to weave her stories around facts of history.

"As advertised, good read!!" Read more

"...It is one of Ms Winspear's best novels...and I have read 9 to date!" Read more

"...I love the way Ms. Winspear weaves her stories around facts of History, and believe her renderings could be used as an educational tool for young..." Read more

"...There were many unexpected turns. But, as usual, this was a well written story. I look forward to the next installment." Read more

5 customers mention "Content"5 positive0 negative

Customers find the content good. They say it's up to the author's standard of excellence. Readers also say they love the series and mention Maisie is amazing.

"Good but quite a departure from the other stories. I found the first part sad, but that didn't stop me from reading the whole book...." Read more

"I have just finished book 15 of the Maisie Dobbs series. Each one better than the last...." Read more

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Top reviews from Canada

  • boyoblue
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Heart-Warming Story
    Reviewed in Canada on April 20, 2015
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    There are authors it is said, that once you start reading their work, you cannot put the book down to do anything else until you come to the end. I have read this latest rendering by Ms. Windspear, her eleventh Maisie Dobbs novel and this one like the previous ten captured me completely. I put Ms. Winspear in the same category as Agatha Christie, James Michener, Phyllis James, Lisa Gardner and Zane Grey. I love the way Ms. Winspear weaves her stories around facts of History, and believe her renderings could be used as an educational tool for young readers.
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  • Murray Thorimbert
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Dangerous Place Nicel
    Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2024
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    As advertised, good read!!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Love this series
    Reviewed in Canada on November 14, 2022
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    Each and every book in this series continues to deliver.
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  • Ronald E. Dines
    3.0 out of 5 stars British mystery
    Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2015
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    I found the plot woefully weak in comparison to all of her other novels. I seriously question the direction Maisie is taking as one which lacks interest for the reader. Enough of the war crap. OK It affected her life. So why in hell would she seek out a return to it on a voluntary basis? Except maybe to further punish herself perhaps, since she lived while both her husband and child did not. I just don’t buy it.

    The intrigue with the British secret service also just doesn’t wash. Maybe they were watching her for pay. I can buy that, but why not just play ball with her and get her to go home having achieved a satisfactory result in the Babayoff murder. No other strategy seems logical to me at least.

    If you are devoted JW fan, then read it. It will be part of your accumulated perspective of Maisie. Otherwise, definitely do not bother.
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  • Espresso
    5.0 out of 5 stars Looking foward to the next installment
    Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2015
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    It's difficult to write review this in any depth without giving away spoilers. There were many unexpected turns. But, as usual, this was a well written story. I look forward to the next installment.
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  • Jerry G.
    4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD...BUT...
    Reviewed in Canada on April 11, 2022
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    I suggested Louise Penny books to a friend. He loved them and read all of them. He suggested that I might like the Maisie Dobbs books. I selected A DANGEROUS PLACE as a start. I liked it. Gibraltar has always fascinated me and it's a clever story. But I found it a little to chirpy for me --- for instance, each day starts with her selecting clothes to wear including careful consideration of which shoes. The interwar years in Europe seem like a pretty dark time to me; everyone knew war was coming. Alan Furst's work captures that time for me. So, I'll just have read one Maisie Dobbs' book.....
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  • Judy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maisie is amazing
    Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2020
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    I have just finished book 15 of the Maisie Dobbs series. Each one better than the last. Winspear has researched the 1st and 2nd world wars exceptionally well. I highly recommend this series.
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  • Vesper
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable mystery
    Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2019
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    April 1937 and after four years away with many changes in Maisie Dobbs' life she is on the way back to England. But not being quite ready she stops off at Gibraltar. A country dealing with the effects of the Spanish Civil War and its refugees into the rock. It isn't long before Maisie literally stumbles over a dead body. But where will her investigations lead to.
    Another enjoyable well-written but slow-paced story in this series
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  • Solstice
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maisie Dobbs
    Reviewed in France on April 9, 2025
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    Quel dommage que Jacqueline Winspear ait achevé ce cycle de romans dont l’héroïne est si attachante et si humaine. Si vous ne connaissez pas, lisez vite ces intrigues policières assez subtiles, pas trop violentes, addictives.
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  • MCF
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good but . . .
    Reviewed in Italy on March 24, 2016
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    I have read most of the Maisie Dobbs books and liked them very much. This one was good on atmosphere and characterization, as usual. However, I found the plot just plain unbelievable in many places. Here's the unknown Maisie, who walks into Gibralter, nobody knows her, she just settles in, stumbles over a body and begins to investigate a murder and the locals open up to her. Why should they? She knows nothing about the victim, she just pokes her nose in. Then she decides to go to Spain, which is in the middle of a messy civil war for very nebulous reasons, and finds someone to take her. It all tries one's credulity, frankly, and I expected more of the author. I think this happens when authors stray out of the places they really know and start writing about places they don't really know, but have merely seen and experienced on holiday. I hope the author sticks to what she knows from now on.
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  • Peter Hoffer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Descriptive
    Reviewed in Spain on February 2, 2019
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    Good reading
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  • Helen Marguerite Musson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2024
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    Brilliant!
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  • becky lou evans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Healing just takes time
    Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2025
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    The time and setting are very interesting. It was nice to catch up on all that had happened to Maisie since she had closed her business and started traveling. Sad also. Hopefully in the next book we find out more about the two who worked with her at the office. I do love this series.
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