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Journey to Munich Audiobook Summary

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).

It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. 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. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. 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 British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie’s travel plans. Her nemesis–the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death–has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help.

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. But the Secret Service may have other ideas. . . .

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Journey to Munich Audiobook Narrator

Orlagh Cassidy is the narrator of Journey to Munich audiobook that was written by Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, and To Die but Once, as well as thirteen other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels and The Care and Management of Lies, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published two nonfiction books, What Would Maisie Do? and a memoir, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing. Originally from the United Kingdom, she divides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest.

About the Author(s) of Journey to Munich

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of Journey to Munich

Journey to Munich Full Details

Narrator Orlagh Cassidy
Length 9 hours 18 minutes
Author Jacqueline Winspear
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date March 29, 2016
ISBN 9780062220646

Subjects

The publisher of the Journey to Munich is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British

Additional info

The publisher of the Journey to Munich is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062220646.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Lisa

May 01, 2021

I’d been looking forward to this one and I did enjoy it but I wasn’t expecting to have to suspend disbelief as much as I did. Many times! I really liked it anyway but I struggled to believe a lot of the details of what happened. I appreciated all the suspense though. I do like Maisie and the series books and I appreciated how this one built on previous happenings. All the books do that but I found it particularly satisfying in this book. I’ve read many WWII/Holocaust books and this was the first book in the series where the setting was familiar to me. I’m glad that part of this book, unlike the last book but all the other series books, did take place in England. I love the English settings. They’re among the things I like most about this series. It seems we’re never going to totally leave WWI though and except for brief mentions I wish we would. I love the blurring of class lines. We’d seen it with Maisie and Sandra, and Billy to some extent. Here I especially appreciated Brenda and all the relationships she has including the one with Maisie. I love everything about the ending and its various resolutions, particularly as with regards to Maisie & Sandra & Billy and about the new tradition of the regular Sunday lunches with everyone involved. I appreciate the author’s notes at the end about the inspiration for this particular Munich story and about her writing in general. I simultaneously read a Kindle e-book edition and an Overdrive audio edition, both borrowed from my public library. This has become my favorite way to read in the last year+.

Lewis

June 18, 2018

This was my first Maisie Dobbs ... It was better than I expected, with good atmospheric writing and an interesting plot

Celia

October 26, 2022

In Journey to Munich, Maisie Dobbs travels to Nazi Germany to retrieve a captured British subject imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp.I have been listening to this fantastic series in order. This is the 12th one I have read and I am still positively entertained by Maisie and Winspear's writing. Maisie is a heroine to cherish. She is selfless, caring and SMART!! Her husband has died tragically in a plane crash. He was test piloting a plane that a family friend, Elaine Otterburn, was supposed to test. Despite blaming Elaine for her husband's death, she finds Elaine in Munich and helps her get out too.I plan to continue this series for as long as I can. There are 17 books in the series. No 13 is In This Grave Hour4 stars

Melanie

February 23, 2016

Maisie Dobbs is one of the most complex characters I've followed in any fictional series, regardless of genre. In this book, the reader follows her as she accepts a request to go to Munich to rescue a British industrialist who has been imprisoned in Dachau for two years. She is still trying to process the tragedies that befell her in the last book, she has no permanent home in London, she has no profession, and she has suffered so many losses that even the lessons she learned from her beloved mentor, Maurice, do not seem to center her. Never the less, she accepts the challenge.Once in Munich, she learns that Hitler is about to launch his incursion into Austria, Jewish and Christian children have to hide if they wish to play together, and citizens can be tortured if they fail to reply to soldiers' salutes to the Fuhrer. She also begins to apply the meditation and visualization techniques that strengthen her resolve and her soul. She will need all the strength she can muster to find the industrialist, fulfill a promise to a grieving mother, and pull her life back together once this trial is over.I admire Maisie Dobbs for her courage, honesty, and willingness to be open to reality, regardless of where it leads her. I admire Jacqueline Winspear more, of course, for having the breadth of imagination and skill to bring this character to life.I received an ARC of this book from Eidelweiss. This is an honest review.I received

Holly

April 07, 2016

Maisie's back!! This was so much better than the last book. Not that A Dangerous Place was terrible but I just didn't like the direction that Maisie was going. In this book, she's back in England, & then, of course, Munich doing a little spy work. I can't wait to see what happens further in this series, seeing as now we're on the cusp of WWII.

Ariel

May 04, 2016

After the last two books that made me want to give up on the series, this was a refreshing turn around back in the right direction. Maisie is called upon by the British government to extract a man of great worth to them out of pre WWII Germany. This book seemed like a reset hopefully launching Maisie into a better future. Unpleasantness from her past tragedy is reconciled and beloved characters who haven't been seen for ages are finally making a comeback. The last few pages were such a delight that at long last I am actually looking forward to the next book.

Diane

April 25, 2016

The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear is the only series of books that I have read all the way through. When I was first introduced to the young nurse/psychologist/private investigator and her friends and colleagues in London just before WWI, I was hooked.I have followed Maisie and company, with all their ups and downs and truly feel like they are friends. Each spring I look forward to catching up with everyone in Maisie's world.When we left Maisie at the end of book 11, A Dangerous Place, she was returning home to England after a stay in Spain during their civil war. She had suffered two devastating losses and was grieving. It was a very somber and sad story, and we didn't see many of Maisie's friends and family.Book 12, Journey to Munich brings Maisie back home, trying to rebuild her life. She is living with her best friend Priscilla and Pris' family, who adore Maisie. Soon Maisie is recruited once again to help the British Secret Service.Maisie agrees to go undercover in Munich to help bring home a British businessman who is being held prisoner by the Germans. The year is 1937 and the Nazi party is growing in power. The man is believed to be in a concentration camp, and Maisie must impersonate his daughter to rescue him.Times are dangerous in Germany, and another world war is on the horizon. Memories of the horrors of WWI remain in Maisie's mind, and she fears for the future of Europe.Maisie has also agreed to help find the daughter of another powerful man in England, to convince her to come home. She has a connection to this young lady, one that she would rather forget, yet she agrees to try.Journey to Munich is a strong entry in the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie has gone through so much, it's good to see her back on her feet and trying to move her life forward. The storyline is interesting, and as always, Winspear has done her research into what life was like at that time, in that place.We get to see more of the gang- Pris, Sandra and my favorite Billy- and the end of the book the readers are rewarded with the possibility that Maisie and company will be back together working to solve cases.As England moves closer to war once again, I expect that the next books in the series will deal with this. England lost so many young men in WWI, an entire generation, that the prospect of going through that again is a frightening one.Maisie Dobbs is an incredibly strong literary heroine, and these books are great reads for young women and for anyone who enjoys historical mysteries. For a woman in her era to do the things that Maisie does with such strength, compassion and intelligence is a wonderful example for girls. She has her flaws too, and that makes her human.I give Journey to Munich my highest recommendation and it is one of the best books in the series.

Geralyn

November 04, 2016

Listened to audio version. Good story line and Maisie is an intelligent, resourceful sleuth. Will definitely follow. This was interesting story of beginning Nazi take over in addition to the mystery.Maisie goes to Germany to rescue someone being held in a camp. Nothing is what it seems--don't want to spoil it for you!

Judy

November 15, 2016

Maisie Dobbs is sent to Nazi Germany on a secret mission. I think that this series is becoming stronger with each addition to the series.

Laurie

July 26, 2018

I plowed through this one. The best of the 12 Maisie Dobbs books that I've read, and I've enjoyed all of them. This one has the most maturity, the most fully developed Maisie so far. When I first started reading I had made up my mind that this would be my last visit to Maisie, I don't like series fiction, for the most part, and I felt I had seen all there was to see here. Now I'm not so sure. I was surprised at the timeliness of this book, how I identified with Maisie's horror in 1938 Munich, not just in a historical sense, but with a feeling of personal familiarity from current events. I don't think Winspear wrote this book with an agenda geared toward current events, but boy does it feel relevant to them. I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway in return for an honest, and in this case, much delayed review.

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