A Mortal Likeness – Laura Joh Rowland Free Audiobook

Written by Laura Joh Rowland
Read by Alex Tregear
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A Mortal Likeness
Victorian Mystery Series, Book 2
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Release date: January 9, 2018
Duration: 10:55:25

When wealthy banker Sir Gerald Mariner posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant, all of London joins in, hoping to win that money for themselves. Usually discouraged by a saturated market, photographer and private detective Sarah Bain is instead curiously allured as she realizes the case hits much closer to home than she first thought. As she dives in, she discovers a photograph of baby Robin Mariner and his mother that eerily resembles the post-mortem photographs Sarah, herself, takes of deceased children posed to look as if they were alive. Now it’s unclear whether the kidnapping is a cover-up to hide the reality of his disappearance or if it’s truly a cry for help. The clock is ticking, and Sarah must uncover the truth before her past catches up to her in this gripping follow-up to The Ripper’s Shadow.

Narrator Alex Tregear reprises her role as Sarah Bain, an amateur investigator and trained photographer, and her partner, Lord Hugh Staunton. The second installment of the series finds the duo, with erstwhile urchin Mick O’Reilly, struggling to make ends meet. Driven in part by financial pressures, they accept a job investigating the kidnapping of a wealthy family’s child. Tregear moves smoothly among British accents reflective of the social classes and attitudes held by household members and staff, constables, and other characters. Plausible motives and antagonistic behavior from everyone involved confound the sleuths, as do the tangles of their romantic lives. Woven throughout are clues relating to the disappearance of Sarah’s father, which suggest the likelihood of a third book. � AudioFile 2018