A MORTAL LIKENESS Victorian Mystery, Book 2

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. J.R.T. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2018]