A review by danaisreading
A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

3.0

Like others, I am disappointed Jacqueline Winspear glossed over a few pages detailing the 4 four years in between [b: Leaving Everything Most Loved|15819025|Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10)|Jacqueline Winspear|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388175902s/15819025.jpg|21547733] and the events in this book. Especially since she went into excruciating detail about Maisie's past in the first book, [b: Maisie Dobbs|462033|Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)|Jacqueline Winspear|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1312066155s/462033.jpg|976403].

It's almost as if Winspear can't bear for Maisie to be happy. Or doesn't know how to write a happy character. Or both.
SpoilerI would have loved to read how she and James lived in Canada after their marriage, but instead most of the flashback concerns James' death and her miscarriage.
Maisie has been through so much anguish and pain, she deserves some happiness, and we should have been given a greater glimpse into that part of her life. It's as an important part of the story as her investigations are.