The diplomatic arrangements have already been made, or so everyone thinks.īut if things were that simple, the Secret Service wouldn’t need Maisie. Her mission is to pose as his daughter and bring him home.

One of Britain’s most inventive engineering minds has been imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau. Now Maisie is seemingly without hostages to fortune, which is one of the reasons why the British Secret Service is more than willing to recruit this indomitable and seemingly undauntable young woman. In the interstitial period between Leaving Everything Most Loved and A Dangerous Place, Maisie married her second love, and he was killed while flying an experimental plane, causing Maisie to miscarry their only child. While he physically survived, mentally he was gone. She lost her first love to a bomb that exploded in the aid station they were working in.

One is that Mary Russell always has her seemingly immortal partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes, at her side. However, there are a couple of key differences. Both feature young women as investigators in the post-World War I era. If you take a look at the “Readers Also Enjoyed” sidebar for each book on Goodreads, they are effectively listed as “read-alikes” for each other.Īnd they are. It seems very fitting that I’m reviewing Journey to Munich right after The Murder of Mary Russell. But the Secret Service may have other ideas. 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). Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, #12) by Jacqueline Winspearįormats available: hardcover, ebook, large print, audiobook

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