Genre: Period Mysteries
Rating: Very Good
Second in the Sebastian St. Cyr series of period mysteries.
It is 1811 and Prinny is, as usual, in Brighton. But he wasn’t prepared for the dead woman he found in his rooms.
Devlin is called in and asked to investigate. Did the Regent kill her, or was it a set up? Devlin is inclined to tell them all to go to Hell, but then he sees a necklace around the dead woman’s neck. The last time he’d seen that necklace was around his mother’s throat just before her sailboat sank and took her to the bottom of the channel.
Nicely complex characters, with a hero who can be single-mindedly bloodthirsty yet caring for those he loves. The miseries of the time were all too clearly painted. The murder and the mystery surrounding it was convoluted and complex enough to keep me from figuring out the fine points throughout.
I’ll be eager to get to the next in the series
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