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Scholarly Pursuits
- A Victorian San Francisco Mystery, Book 6
- Narrated by: Alexandra Haag
- Series: Victorian San Francisco Mysteries, Book 6
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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“Something is rotten in the state of Berkeley.” (1881 Blue and Gold Yearbook, University of California, Berkeley)
In Scholarly Pursuits, the sixth full-length book in the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco mystery series, Locke explores life in University of California, Berkeley campus, in 1881. Laura and her friends face the remarkably modern problems of fraternity hazings, fraught romantic relationships, and fractious faculty politics.
While Annie and Nate Dawson and friends and family in the O’Farrell Street boardinghouse await a blessed event, Laura Dawson finds herself investigating why a young Berkeley student dropped out of school in the fall of 1880.
No one, including her friend Seth Timmons, thinks this is a good idea, since she is juggling a full course load with a part-time job, but she can’t let the question of what happened to her friend go unanswered. Not when it means that other young women might be in danger.
This cozy historical mystery of romantic suspense is set in the period immediately after the fifth book in the series, Pilfered Promises, and two novellas, Kathleen Catches a Killer and Dandy Delivers. However, it can be listened to as a stand-alone.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Keith
- 04-27-20
Good Historical Novel
Enjoy the story and always like to read a historical novel with such good research.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- M. A. Costales
- 01-06-20
love this series by Luisa M. Locke
I loved the story and how relevant it was to current headlines, i found the narration kind of flat and boring.