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    The Secrets of Wishtide

    Written by Kate Saunders

    Narrated by Anna Bentinck

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    Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. 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. When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family's new governess--quickly making herself indispensable. But the seemingly simple case-looking into young Charles Calderstone's inappropriate love interest-soon takes an unpleasant turn. And as the family's secrets begin to unfold, Laetitia discovers the Calderstones have more to hide than most.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781520055190
    Author

    Kate Saunders

    KATE SAUNDERS was a journalist whose work appeared in The Independent, The Guardian and The Washington Post. She was a founder of the Legal Research Group and was active in the campaign for Harry Wu's release. She lived in London.

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    • 3/5
      Kate Saunders captures life in the villages around London in 1850 well, especially through the eyes of a 52-year-old widowed female whose life would be reduced to unpaid governess of her nieces and nephews had she not asserted her will and decided to do private investigation work for her barrister brother. Using largely her intuition and knowledge of people and their motivations, Laetiticia "Letty" Rodd helps solve what starts out to be a simple question and becomes an overly complex case. A few flaws: too many confusing characters, too many convenient coincidences, and the main character tends to hit the reader over the head with the important social points the author is trying to make. That being said, this is still a fairly enjoyable Dickensian mystery with several laugh-out-loud funny lines. Obviously the start of a new series, one would hope readers find out more about Mrs. Rodd in future adventures.
    • 3/5
      This bood was given to me as a gift and I thought it looked intriguing. It's an historical mystery set in Victorian England which is my favourite time and place for mysteries, but I was disappointed with it though. I found the character development a bit week and, to be truthful, I didn't care for Letitia Rodd. Letitia is a fifty-something vicar's widow who finds herself in rather straightened circumstances and she supplements her meagre income by helping her successful attorney brother invvestigate some of his clients' cases. A bit of a stretch perhaps, but Letititia is farily successful at ferreting out the truth. In this book she is asked to help a prominent family discredit a current love interest of their only son. The case is much more complex than it first appears, and Letitia finds herself in the middle of numerous family secrets and also she finds she is in some danger from a particularly heartless killer. I found the book did not flow smoothly, and the plot was a bit plodding in between inexplicably abrupt changes in story lines and plot threads.
    • 4/5
      Thoroughly enjoyable. Very Dickensian, as advertised, with a wonderful main character in the person of the widowed Mrs. Rodd. Supporting characters also well drawn.
    • 5/5
      Laetitia Rodd, widow, ekes out a living as a discrete private investigator. Living in reduced circumstances with her landlady, she was never wealthy, having been married to an archdeacon. Her brother is a successful barrister with a lovely wife and many children. Through his connections, Laetitia is approached with a case. She masquerades as a governess to prevent a beloved son of a wealthy family from marrying a woman of lesser status. When things go wrong, Laetitia must solve the case to save him from the hangman’s noose. After a somewhat slow beginning, this novel takes off and grabs your attention as more details come to light and the characters evolve. Many twists along the way add to the suspense. A well-written mystery, faithful to its setting, with likeable and gentile characters. A great start to a new series.
    • 4/5
      Have you ever read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens? If you had and wished for some exploration on the characters or some slight differences in their outcomes then I whole-heartedly suggest you read this tale. If you have never read David Copperfield then no worries, if you like crime, mystery and suspense then I also suggest this book to you.This book is touted as a new crime series and it is BUT what they are not touting is that this is a book about romance as well. I do not mean romance in the illicit sense; I mean that the underlying stories in this novel are all driven by love for good or bad. There is also the heartbreak of the widowed Laetitia Rodd, which was felt throughout the story. She loved her husband and misses him so and because of her experiences in love she views all the other interactions with the women that she sees through this lens. To me, it makes the story richer. Humans are driven by love and by lack of love and I like that the character is written in such a way that she can be compassionate to even the most vile of women because she can understand on a level what led them to their circumstances or situation.“My work could be described as the Management and Prevention of Scandal (my brother used to enjoy making up facetious advertisements for my services – ‘Blushes Spared and Broken Commandments Mended!’)” Laetitia Rodd is a clever sort of woman who uses intuition and spying to gather information for clients in her work as a private investigator. What could drive a woman in Victorian times to pursue a career as a PI? Well, after the death of her husband she was left near penniless and needed to find a way to support herself. Luckily she has a younger brother who is a barrister and recommends her for cases where discretion is advised for finding out the truth of the matter.It is due to this type of recommendation that Laetitia finds herself embroiled in a most unpleasant mystery that involves multiple murders all being orchestrated by an unknown master criminal that only goes by the moniker of “Prince.” True to fashion, this stubborn Victorian woman is not deterred by the circumstances and is bound and determined to bring this puppet master to justice. With the help of her brother, an inspector from the Metropolitan Police and her landlady, Mrs. Bentley, Laetitia is able to follow the trail of a murderer that is full of twists and turns and surprises. This story will keep you on your toes with suspense.There are truly no dull moments in this book and it is also a clean read. There are talks of scandals, adultery and harlots but it is all done without it being vulgar. All the characters are well fleshed out and even though this is most likely going to be a series, the ending is very tidy with no cliffhangers. I do not think that will be a deterrent for readers in not continuing the series though because Laetitia is a pip and they will want to see what she wanders into next. There is also the seeds of possibility of something with a certain inspector…it is after all a novel full of romantic notions. I highly recommend this book to all readers!*Thank you to Bloomsbury USA & NetGalley for this ARC of The Secrets of Wishtide*
    • 4/5
      It’s 1850 and 50-something widow Laetitia Rodd is longing for a new case. She’s a private investigator for her brother’s law firm – on the job when delicacy and discretion are called for. Pretty soon Frederick Tyson, said brother, has a case for her. Sir James Calderstone has a problem with his son Charles. Charles has fallen madly in love with a totally unsuitable woman. The family had hoped he’d marry his 2nd cousin but Charles insists he’s marrying Mrs. Helen Orme, the widow of a clergyman. Posing as a governess for the household’s two younger daughters, Letty moves in with the Calderstone family and starts her investigation. Letty’s late husband was a man of the cloth, and she has many friends in clerical circles – and she uses them to track down Mrs. Orme’s story. But soon she’s investigating a murder. Then multiple murders.As a widow, Letty has more freedom to move about in Victorian England than many other women do, and she’s a natural investigator who has good instincts. But instincts and intuition aren’t going to be enough to convict whoever is committing the murders. The blurb on the back of the book calls this a “new crime series that will immediately delight fans of Agatha Christie and Alexander McCall Smith.” I am fans of both, and I wouldn’t put this book into the same category at all. I would compare it, instead, to the Gaslight Mysteries by Victoria Thompson. I did enjoy the book and hope there are more in the series.