Four years after she set sail from Britain, leaving everything she most adored behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, and then find herself inside a dangerous place .

In Jacqueline Winspear’s effective story of politics intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of is, deceit, and peril.

Spring and coil 1937. In the four years since she remaining Britain, Maisie Dobbs offers experienced love, contentment, stability-and the deepest about A Harmful Place: A Maisie Dobbs Book tragedy a woman can endure. Today, all she wants is the tranquility she is convinced she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hillsides of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her house to Britain; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any youthful.

But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn’t ready to come back. Against the desires from the captain who warns her, “You will be alone inside a most dangerous place,” she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she actually is on her own, Maisie is far from by itself: the United kingdom garrison town is definitely teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil battle across the boundary in Spain.

Yet the danger is very true. Days after Maisie’s introduction, a photographer and member of Gibraltar’s Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, can be murdered, and Maisie turns into entangled in the case, drawing the interest of the Uk Secret Service. Under the dubious eye of a United kingdom agent, Maisie is normally drawn deeper into political intrigue on “the Rock”-probably Britain’s most important tactical territory-and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her potential, Maisie must choose a direction, understanding that Britain is, on her behalf, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.