The Missing Page

Page & Sommers, Book 2

De: Cat Sebastian

Narrado por: Joel Leslie

England, 1948: Semi-retired spy Leo Page and country doctor James Sommers team up to solve a decades-old mystery.

When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his will, he figures that the least he can do is head down to Cornwall for a weekend to honor the old man’s parting wishes. He finds the family home filled with half-remembered guests and unwanted memories, but more troubling is that his uncle has tasked his heirs with uncovering the truth behind a woman’s disappearance 20 years earlier.

Leo doesn’t like any of it. He’s just returned from one of his less pleasant missions and maybe he’s slightly paranoid about James’ safety, but he’s of the opinion that rich people aren’t to be trusted where wills are concerned. So he does what any sensible spy would do and infiltrates the house party.

Together they unravel a mystery that exposes long-standing family secrets and threatens to involve James more than either of them would like.

©2022 Cat Sebastian (P)2022 Cat Sebastian

Great story made that much better by Joel Leslie’s

I listened to the audiobook and not only is the story great but Joel Leslie’s narration is fantastic. I just love these MCs and I hope we are going to get more in this series. I’m not normally a fan of historicals but I have really enjoyed these. I believe that is due to the characters of Leo and James and to Joel Leslie’s performance bringing them to life.

The country weekend mystery is quintessentially British and will keep you guessing until the end. Lots of clues and lots of red herrings! Leslie’s performance makes each character distinct and makes each of them come alive. He conveys the emotions of the story som much better than reading on the page would have.

The way this series sets in the 1940’s addresses homosexuality makes you realize how far we’ve come. We are by no means perfect, especially with recent political happenings but we have most definitely made quite a bit of progress. That is encouraging and will hopefully encourage people to stand up and fight now.

Great story

I love these characters. I hope there are more stories featuring them. Cat has a great way of putting us in their locale and time.

Great Rom Com/Mystery

I'm Romcom skeptical, especially when it's a period piece (after WW II in this case), but the characters Sebastian has drawn are complicated, believable, highly likeable (well, I suppose all Rom/Com heroes are supposed to be). It has all the characteristics of the genre, blended with a mystery, but the world Sebastian evokes, if only in one's dreams, is still a delightful place in which to spend one's mind or ear or imagination. I wish there were a third . . . and a fourth.

A whole barrel of red herrings

Had me recalculating until the reveal, which was almost nonchalant in its delivery. What a delight!

too sweet for words, too good for praises

too bad she stopped writing this series!!
I would have loved to know what leo does next.
one of cs' best work, if not the best!
even better than the first book in the series, and this is something to brag about.
interesting and original story line, awesome and mellow writing, well build characters that continue to change and evolve in the best ways, throughout the story.
I have to admit I never guessed what turn out to be the real explanation - and that is rare.
I also thought there was one logical mistake - turns out it was better explained later in the plot.
there is only one character that is not that well built, nor does it behave all that logical, but it's so marginal a character, I didn't realized it's fishy, until the second listen.
as for jl's narration: back to his best! all characters were given fitting, distinguishable voices, and he doesn't mess up even once, in all the six and a half hours of it.
definitely one for the favorites list!