The Secrets of Wishtide – Kate Saunders Free Audiobook

Written by Kate Saunders
Read by Anna Bentinck
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Laetitia Rodd Mystery Series, Book 1
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Release date: October 25, 2016
Duration: 10:35:58

Laetitia Rodd, is the narrator of this lively series debut set in 1850.At age fifty-two left in reduced circumstances by her clergyman husband’s death. She is now living with her working-class friend and landlady, Mary Bentley, in the London village of Hampstead. To supplement her income and exercise her quick wits. Laetitia conducts confidential inquiries for her brother.

Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow.

Influential peer Sir James Calderstone hires the siblings to investigate the background of Helen Orme, the beautiful but mysterious widow whom his son, Charles, wants to marry against James’s wishes. In the guise of a governess, Laetitia travels to Wishtide, the Calderstone Lincolnshire estate, where she discovers that not only Mrs. Orme but also the Calderstones themselves are hiding scandalous secrets. When Mrs. Orme is found murdered and Charles is accused, Laetitia strives to save him from the gallows.

Narrator Anna Bentinck delivers Saunders’s whodunit, which takes place in Victorian England. We are immediately introduced to the comely widow Laetitia Rodd; under the guise of a gentlewoman, she’s a smart investigator who is stoic in the face of murder and can detect a lie at 10 paces. Bentinck’s lithe voice emoting sadness, delight, horror, and grace in males and females young and old prepares us for the twists and turns that ensue. Bentinck’s well-done Yorkshire, Cockney, and aristocratic voices convey the rigid social stratification and mores of the period. This first installment in the Laetitia Rodd series leaves the listener eager for the Victorian sleuth’s next case. E.B. � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine