A review by niharikaaaaaa9
A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

3.0

I actually didn't like this Maisie Dobbs book (and I've liked every book up until this point, so I was surprised). This book starts off with a tragedy, and it seems like the rest of the book awkwardly tries to toe the line between Maisie's response to the tragedy and her response to the murder that she saw and is now trying to solve. This balancing act felt forced, and the transition between the two responses were not very smooth. Part of what made Maisie, Maisie was the fact that she was level-headed regardless of what happened to her, falling back on the principles that Maurice and Khan had taught her, and that was all thrown to the wind in this book.

The mystery itself was far too convoluted for my taste - up until the very end, it was unclear what was truth and what was not, who the players in the game were, and what Maisie's role in all of it was going to be.

This book tried to address both the tragedy and the mystery, and unfortunately, did neither well, which is why I'm giving it 3 stars.