Without a Trace, Mel Starr
Without a Trace, Mel Starr
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Without a Trace

Author: Mel Starr

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/26/2019

Synopsis

Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer, a knight of the realm, disappears while traveling from her husband’s manor to Bampton. She and her maid are traveling in an enclosed wagon, while her husband and his grooms and a squire are mounted.When the party arrives at Bampton Castle neither the lady nor her maid are within the enclosed wagon—they have simply vanished. As the disappearance may have happened while the travelers were on Lord Gilbert’s lands, his surgeon and bailiff, Hugh de Singleton, is assigned to discover what has happened to the lady. Has she been taken? Has she fled her husband?A few days later her husband receives a ransom demand, and Hugh is named to deliver the money. Why him? The ransom is paid, but the lady is not returned. Can Hugh help find her, or is it already too late?

About Mel Starr

Mel Starr was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating with an MA degree in history from Western Michigan University in 1970, he taught history in Michigan public schools for thirty-nine years. Since retiring, he has focused on his highly successful novels.

About Jayme Mattler

Jayme Mattler is a professional voiceover artist with years of experience in recording, directing, and producing. Passionate about narrating audiobooks, she has been the recipient of multiple Audie Award nominations.

About Steven Crossley

Steven Crossley is a multi-Earphones Award winner and twice-nominated Audie finalist who has narrated over two-hundred audiobooks. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has established an acting career on both sides of the Atlantic in theatre, television, film, and radio drama. A member of the internationally acclaimed company Complicite, he has performed with distinguished companies in New York and London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa

Title: Without a Trace (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton #12) Author: Mel Starr Pages: 240 Year: 2019 Publisher: Lion Fiction My rating is 4 out of 5 stars. Hugh de Singleton is pressed into service by Lord Talbot, his boss, to find the wife of a knight who has disappeared while journeying to Brampton......more

Goodreads review by Cathy

Without a Trace by Melvin R. Starr The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #12 Coming into this series on book twelve may not have been the best idea. I never really became invested in Hugh, his family or any of the characters. The story was told from Hugh’s viewpoint and felt a bit stodgy to me......more

Goodreads review by Diane

Good, but not his best. I enjoyed this book, as I do all of his. I am now fully invested in our hero and his lovely family and friends. The books have a similar and familiar vibe to them which is comforting and happiness to be a part of. I liked that this story had a disappearance involved, instead o......more

Quotes

“Steven Crossley embodies the ambiance of the medieval era in his first-person narration of this historical mystery…He transports listeners back eight centuries to the days when the Church reigned supreme over all aspects of life, sometimes justly but at other times with corruption. Crossley’s interpretation, with its matter-of-fact approach to graphic injuries and Hugh’s determination to seek out justice, suits this audiobook’s content effectively.” AudioFile

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