journey to munich by jacqueline winspear

But now we find her back home again in England where she belongs. In the last book, we saw her on her way home after those terrible events, stopping off in Gibraltar and getting involved in the Spanish Civil War. We saw her marry the son of the family with whom she had been in domestic service and then lose him in an airplane crash in Canada and, on the same day, lose the child she was carrying. We've followed Maisie from a child whose mother had just died and whose father gave her into domestic service with an aristocratic family, through her fortunate years and her education with that family, to the trenches of France as a nurse in the Great War, and afterward as she set up her business as a private investigator and psychologist. But the Secret Service may have other ideas.With Journey to Munich, the twelfth and most recent in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series, we've now spent more than twenty years in the company of this character from the years just before the beginning of World War I to 1938, the time of this novel.

Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, Maisie encounters unexpected dangers-and finds herself questioning whether it’s time to return to the work she loved. Her nemesis-the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death-has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help. The British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie’s travel plans.

Because the man’s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie-who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter-to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member.

On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square-a place of many memories-she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue-the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” ( Wall Street Journal).

Journey to munich by jacqueline winspear