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

Love the escapade

I just can't get enough of these two and the whole village and the escapades they all get up to.

Leo and James have this great dynamitic that makes the story just roll along with them. The supporting cast is fun and well done.
I hope we get more of these

Joel did an amazing job, as normal, and really made this story come alive.

Charming!

Leo and James are back on the case trying to solve a 20-year-old missing person’s case. The case is twisty and interesting, but what really matters here is the evolution of James and Leo’s relationship. These two bring all the feelings and I loved it! Joel Leslie does a beautiful job narrating!

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!

Delightful classic detective story

Main characters are delightful, mystery is interesting, secondary characters are well written, and time, place, and social class are convincingly represented--with the exception of a weird use of "beg my pardon" at the beginning that almost put me off bc I was worried that it indicated the kind of writer that makes one continually edit in one's head. I'm glad I kept listening! Btw, the bedroom scenes are adorable, and the narration is well done.