Here is the second Laetitia Rodd Mystery by Kate Saunders: The Case of the Wandering Scholar. Laetitia is actually on a short holiday when she is asked to look for the missing brother of a man who is dying ... he wants to be reunited before he dies. What caused the estrangement? And where does she even start to look? The brother left college some years ago to pretty much 'live off the land'. He has been spotted from time to time, but has no permanent location of any kind. Remember, appearances are important in this age so she has to be careful who and how she asks what questions ... she is a 'private detective of the utmost discretion' (says so, right on the cover)! This is a great series, but at the moment, there is no word as to if the author is at work on a third book. Let's hope she is!

Kudos to Canadian Reader for finding another wonderful 'first' book! The Riviera Express, by TP Fielden introduces us to some wonderful characters and a delightful mystery. First off ... the name ... the Riviera Express is both a newspaper and a train! How fun is that? Secondly, the victim died on said train, in a private, first class seat. Then a body shows up at the bottom of a cliff, one where the path above was clearly marked as dangerous ... Now, the man in the train was 'important', the man at the bottom of the cliff, not so much. What is the connection? Was there one? I've already ordered book two!

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