Book Review: The Case of the Wandering Scholar

 

Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar

by Kate Saunders

Bloomsbury USA 

Bloomsbury Publishing

 General Fiction (Adult)  |  Mystery & Thrillers 

Pub Date 03 Dec 2019

The year is 1851 and private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services.  Mrs Rodd has a reclusive rich gentleman as her neighbor Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and he wants Mrs. Rodd to find his brother, who has been missing for fifteen years.

Joshua Welland was a brilliant eccentric, and desperately poor scholar at Oxford when he went missing.   Friends had claimed that they have seen Joshua in gypsy camps and wandering in the country side, but the last sighting had been ten years before when Joshua claimed to be learning great secrets from the gypsies that would one day astound the whole world.

Laetitia takes on the challenge, and starts to search for the wandering scholar But as she investigates, Mrs. Rodd discovers something dark-and extremely dangerous hiding in the beautiful English countryside.

I give  Laetitia Rodd and The Case of the Wandering Scholar five out of five stars! 

Happy Reading!