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In 1851, private-detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd’s neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive rich gentleman dying of consumption, and he wants Mrs. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was a scholar at Oxford, brilliant, eccentric, and desperately poor when he disappeared from the university. Friends claim to have seen him since, in gypsy camps and wandering around the countryside. But the last sighting was ten years before—when Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would one day astound the whole world. Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins to search for the wandering scholar. But as she investigates, Mrs. Rodd discovers something dark—and extremely dangerous—lurking in the beautiful English countryside.
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About Kate Saunders
Kate Saunders is the author of many books for adults and children, including the Belfry witches series and the Laetitia Rodd mystery series, as well as Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2014. She has written for the London Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, and Cosmopolitan and has contributed to the Radio 4 programs Woman’s Hour, Start the Week, and Kaleidoscope.
About Anna Bentinck
Anna Bentinck is a British actress who trained at Arts Educational Schools and has worked extensively for BBC Radio. Winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has provided voices for many audiobooks and such animated series as 64 Zoo Lane. Her film credits include Alice in Wonderland and To the Devil a Daughter.